Psalms 44:14-25

¹⁴Thou makest vs a prouerbe among the nations, and a nodding of the head among the people.

¹⁵My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me,

¹⁶For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.

¹⁷All this is come vpon vs, yet doe wee not forget thee, neither deale wee falsly concerning thy couenant.

¹⁸Our heart is not turned backe: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,

¹⁹Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.

²⁰If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god,

²¹Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

²³Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?

²⁵For our soule is beaten downe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the ground.