Psalms 44:6-26

⁶For I do not trust in my bowe, neither can my sworde saue me.

⁷But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs.

⁸Therefore will wee praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer. Selah.

⁹But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.

¹⁰Thou makest vs to turne backe from the aduersary, and they, which hate vs, spoile for theselues.

¹¹Thou giuest vs as sheepe to bee eaten, and doest scatter vs among the nations.

¹²Thou sellest thy people without gaine, and doest not increase their price.

¹³Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.

¹⁴Thou makest vs a prouerbe among the nations, and a nodding of the head among the people.

¹⁵My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face hath couered me,

¹⁶For the voyce of the slaunderer and rebuker, for the enemie and auenger.

¹⁷All this is come vpon vs, yet doe wee not forget thee, neither deale wee falsly concerning thy couenant.

¹⁸Our heart is not turned backe: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,

¹⁹Albeit thou hast smitten vs downe into the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadow of death.

²⁰If wee haue forgotten the Name of our God, and holden vp our hands to a strange god,

²¹Shall not God searche this out? for hee knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Surely for thy sake are we slaine continually, and are counted as sheepe for the slaughter.

²³Vp, why sleepest thou, O Lord? awake, be not farre off for euer.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face? and forgettest our miserie and our affliction?

²⁵For our soule is beaten downe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the ground.

²⁶Rise vp for our succour, and redeeme vs for thy mercies sake.