Psalms 44:12-20

¹²(44:13) Thou sellest thy people for no value, and acquirest no gain by their price.

¹³(44:14) Thou renderest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.

¹⁴(44:15) Thou renderest us a by-word among the nations, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁵(44:16) All the day is my disgrace before me, and the shame of my face covereth me;

¹⁶(44:17) Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and him that seeketh vengeance.

¹⁷(44:18) All this is come over us, yet have we not forgotten thee; nor have we dealt falsely by thy covenant;

¹⁸(44:19) Our heart is not moved backward, nor hath our step turned aside from thy path:

¹⁹(44:20) Even when thou didst crush us in the abode of monsters, and cover 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: