Psalms 44:17-25

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

¹⁹Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

²¹Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O LORD? arise, cast us not off for ever.

²⁴Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.