Psalms 44:3-21

³It was not by using their own swords that they conquered the people that lived in that land, and it was not by their own power that they were victorious; it was only by your power MTY, DOU that they did those things; and they were sure that you were with them, and that showed that you were pleased with them.

⁴You are my King and my God; it is you who enable us, your people MTY, to defeat our enemies.

⁵It is by your power that we knock our enemies down and tramp on them.

⁶I do not trust that I will be saved by using my bow and arrows and my sword.

⁷No, it is you who have rescued us from our enemies, it is you who have caused those who hate us to become ashamed because they were defeated.

⁸We have continually boasted about what God has done for us, and we will thank him MTY forever.

⁹But now you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced; when our armies march out to fight a battle, you no longer go with them.

¹⁰You have caused us to run away from our enemies, with the result that they captured the things that belonged to us.

¹¹You have allowed us to become like MET sheep that were ready to be slaughtered; you scattered us far away among other nations.

¹²It is as though MET you sold us, your people, to our enemies for a very small price, and you did not gain much profit from selling us!

¹³People who live in nations near us make fun of us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.

¹⁴They make jokes using the name of our country, they shake their heads to indicate that they despise us.

¹⁵All day I feel disgraced; from seeing my face, people know that I am ashamed.

¹⁶I hear what those who sneer at me and revile me say; I am ashamed in front of my enemies and those who want to harm me.

¹⁷All these things have happened to us even though we have not forgotten you, and we are not the ones who disobeyed the agreement you made with our ancestors.

¹⁸We have not stopped being loyal to you, and we have not stopped doing what you want us to do IDM.

¹⁹But it is as though you have allowed us to be helpless among wild animals, and abandoned us in a deep dark ravine.

²⁰If we had forgotten to worship MTY our God, or if we had spread out our hands to worship a foreign god,

²¹you certainly would have known that, because you know even what we secretly think.