en_cjb - Psa 44 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(0)] For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. A maskil:

² [(1)] God, we heard it with our ears; our fathers told us about it — a deed which you did in their days, back in days of old.

³ [(2)] With your hand you drove out nations to plant them in [the land], you crushed peoples to make room for them.

⁴ [(3)] For not by their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; rather, it was your right hand, your arm and the light of your face; because you favored them.

⁵ [(4)] God, you are my king; command complete victory for Ya‘akov.

⁶ [(5)] Through you we pushed away our foes, through your name we trampled down our assailants.

⁷ [(6)] For I don’t rely on my bow, nor can my sword give me victory.

⁸ [(7)] No, you saved us from our adversaries; you put to shame those who hate us.

⁹ [(8)] We will boast in our God all day and give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)

¹⁰ [(9)] Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don’t march out with our armies.

¹¹ [(10)] You make us retreat from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder us at will.

¹² [(11)] You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten and scattered us among the nations.

¹³ [(12)] You sell your people for a pittance, you don’t even profit on the sale.

¹⁴ [(13)] You make us an object for our neighbors to mock, one of scorn and derision to those around us.

¹⁵ [(14)] You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.

¹⁶ [(15)] All day long my disgrace is on my mind, and shame has covered my face

¹⁷ [(16)] at the sound of those who revile and insult, at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.

¹⁸ [(17)] Though all this came on us, we did not forget you; we have not been false to your covenant;

¹⁹ [(18)] Our hearts have not turned back, and our steps did not turn away from your path,

²⁰ [(19)] though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.

²¹ [(20)] If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

²² [(21)] wouldn’t God have discovered this, since he knows the secrets of the heart?

²³ [(22)] For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.

²⁴ [(23)] Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don’t thrust us off forever.

²⁵ [(24)] Why are you turning your face away, forgetting our pain and misery?

²⁶ [(25)] For we are lying flat in the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.

²⁷ [(26)] Get up, and come to help us! For the sake of your grace, redeem us!