Psalm 44 - American Standard Version 2015

¹ {\b For the Chief Musician. {\i A Psalm} of the sons of Korah. Maschil.}\par\par\tab We have heard with our ears, O God,\par\tab Our fathers have told us,\par\tab What work thou didst in their days,\par\tab In the days of old.

² Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand;\par\tab But them thou didst plant:\par\tab Thou didst afflict the peoples;\par\tab But them thou didst spread abroad.

³ For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword,\par\tab Neither did their own arm save them;\par\tab But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,\par\tab Because thou wast favorable unto them.

⁴ Thou art my King, O God:\par\tab Command deliverance for Jacob.

⁵ Through thee will we push down our adversaries:\par\tab Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

⁶ For I will not trust in my bow,\par\tab Neither shall my sword save me.

⁷ But thou hast saved us from our adversaries,\par\tab And hast put them to shame that hate us.

⁸ In God have we made our boast all the day long,\par\tab And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. {\i Selah\par

⁹ But now thou hast cast {\i us} off, and brought us to dishonor,\par\tab And goest not forth with our hosts.

¹⁰ Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;\par\tab And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.

¹¹ Thou hast made us like sheep {\i appointed} for food,\par\tab And hast scattered us among the nations.

¹² Thou sellest thy people for nought,\par\tab And hast not increased {\i thy wealth} by their price.

¹³ Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,\par\tab A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴ Thou makest us a byword among the nations,\par\tab A shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵ All the day long is my dishonor before me,\par\tab And the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶ For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,\par\tab By reason of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,\par\tab Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back,\par\tab Neither have our steps declined from thy way,

¹⁹ That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals,\par\tab And covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God,\par\tab Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

²¹ Will not God search this out?\par\tab For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²² Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;\par\tab We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³ Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?\par\tab Arise, cast {\i us} not off for ever.

²⁴ Wherefore hidest thou thy face,\par\tab And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust:\par\tab Our body cleaveth unto the earth.

²⁶ Rise up for our help,\par\tab And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.\par