en_cepher - Psa 44 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ WE have heard with our ears, O Elohiym, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.

² How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.

³ For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor unto them.

⁴ You are my King, O Elohiym: command deliverances for Ya`aqov.

⁵ Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

⁶ For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

⁷ But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.

⁸ In Elohiym we boast all the day long, and praise your name forever. Celah.

⁹ But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.

¹⁰ You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

¹¹ You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.

¹² You sell your people for nought, and do not increase your wealth by their price.

¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴ You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁵ My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,

¹⁶ For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;

¹⁹ Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our Elohiym, or stretched out our hands to a strange el;

²¹ Shall not Elohiym search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.

²² Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³ Awake, why sleep you, O Adonai? arise, cast us not off forever.

²⁴ Wherefore hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves unto the earth.

²⁶ Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies'' sake.