Psalms 44:10-25

¹⁰You make us turn back from the adversary; and those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

¹¹You have made us like sheep to be slaughtered and have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sell your people for nothing; you have not increased your wealth by doing so.

¹³You make us a rebuke to our neighbors, scoffed and mocked by those around us.

¹⁴You make us an insult among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵All the day long my dishonor is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me

¹⁶because of the voice of him who rebukes and insults, because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come on us; yet we have not forgotten you or dealt falsely with your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back; our steps have not gone from your way.

¹⁹Yet you have severely broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a strange god,

²¹would not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²²Indeed, for your sake we are being killed all day long; we are considered to be sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake, why do you sleep, Lord? Arise, do not throw us off permanently.

²⁴Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For we have melted away into the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.