Psalms 44:15-26

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.

²⁶Rise up for our help and redeem us for the sake of your covenant faithfulness.