Psalms 44:11-25

¹¹(44-12) Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.

¹²(44-13) Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.

¹³(44-14) Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴(44-15) Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵(44-16) All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶(44-17) For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.

¹⁷(44-18) All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.

¹⁸(44-19) Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;

¹⁹(44-20) Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰(44-21) If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

²¹(44-22) Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²(44-23) Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³(44-24) Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.

²⁴(44-25) Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵(44-26) For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.