Psalms 44:16-25

¹⁶at the words of blasphemer and scoffer, at the sight of the foe and the vengeful.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you nor falsely dealt with your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps declined from your way,

¹⁹that you thus should have crushed us down, and covered us over with gloom, in the place where the jackals roam.

²⁰Had we forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a god that was strange,

²¹would God not have searched this out? For he knows the heart and its secrets.

²²But in your cause it is we are killed all the day, and counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Rouse yourself, why do you sleep Lord? Awake, cast us not off forever.

²⁴Why do you hide your face, forgetting our stress and our misery?

²⁵For we have sunk down to the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.