Psalms 44:5-22

⁵Through you, we will push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.

⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither will my sword save me.

⁷But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

⁸In God we have made our boast all day long. We will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

⁹But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonour, and don’t go out with our armies.

¹⁰You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

¹¹You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us amongst the nations.

¹²You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

¹³You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

¹⁴You make us a byword amongst the nations, a shaking of the head amongst the peoples.

¹⁵All day long my dishonour is before me, and shame covers my face,

¹⁶at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

¹⁹though you have crushed us in the haunt 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,

²¹won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²²Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.