Psalms 44:4-24

⁴God, you are my King; command victories for Jacob!

⁵Only through you can we repel our enemies; only in your name can we defeat our opponents.

⁶I do not trust my bow; I do not have confidence in my sword to save me.

⁷You are the one who saves us from our enemies; you defeat those who hate us.

⁸God, we proudly thank you all day long, and praise your name forever. Selah.

⁹But now you have rejected and disgraced us; you no longer accompany our armies.

¹⁰You made us run from our enemies, and those who hate us have taken whatever they wanted.

¹¹You have handed us over like sheep to be slaughtered; you have scattered us among the other nations.

¹²You have sold your own people for next to nothing, making no profit on the sale.

¹³You have made a mockery of us before our neighbors, we are ridiculed and laughed at by those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a joke to the other nations; they scornfully shake their heads at us.

¹⁵We are humiliated all day long; we hold our heads in shame,

¹⁶because of all the insults from the people mocking us, because our vengeful enemies are right in front of us.

¹⁷All this has happened to us even though we didn't forget you; we haven't been unfaithful to the promises we made to you.

¹⁸We have not turned away from you, not in thought, nor in action.

¹⁹Even so, you crushed us, and made us into a jackal's den. You have covered us with the darkness of death.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God, or worshiped other gods,

²¹wouldn't God have been aware of this, because he knows everyone's thoughts?

²²But because of you we are killed all day long; we're considered just sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Lord, wake up! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don't turn your back on us forever!

²⁴Why do you look away from us and take no notice of our suffering and misery?