Psalms 44:1-12

¹God, we ourselves have heard what our parents and grandparents told us. They told us about the miracles that you performed long ago.

²They told us how you expelled the ungodly people and enabled us to live in their land. They told us that you punished those ungodly people and enabled your own people to prosper IDM.

³It was not by using their own swords that they conquered the people that lived in that land, and it was not by their own power that they were victorious; it was only by your power MTY, DOU that they did those things; and they were sure that you were with them, and that showed that you were pleased with them.

⁴You are my King and my God; it is you who enable us, your people MTY, to defeat our enemies.

⁵It is by your power that we knock our enemies down and tramp on them.

⁶I do not trust that I will be saved by using my bow and arrows and my sword.

⁷No, it is you who have rescued us from our enemies, it is you who have caused those who hate us to become ashamed because they were defeated.

⁸We have continually boasted about what God has done for us, and we will thank him MTY forever.

⁹But now you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced; when our armies march out to fight a battle, you no longer go with them.

¹⁰You have caused us to run away from our enemies, with the result that they captured the things that belonged to us.

¹¹You have allowed us to become like MET sheep that were ready to be slaughtered; you scattered us far away among other nations.

¹²It is as though MET you sold us, your people, to our enemies for a very small price, and you did not gain much profit from selling us!