Psalms 44:11-24

¹¹Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

¹²Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;

¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:

¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;

¹⁹Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

²¹Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

²³Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?