Psalms 44:8-20

⁸In God we boast all the day long, and your name will we praise forever. Selah

⁹Yet you have spurned and disgraced us, in not going forth with our armies,

¹⁰and in making us flee from the foe, so that those who hated us plundered us.

¹¹You have let us be eaten like sheep, you have scattered us over the world,

¹²sold your people for a pittance, and getting no gain from their price.

¹³You have made us the butt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of all round us.

¹⁴O'er the world you have made us a byword, the nations at us shake their heads.

¹⁵My disgrace is forever before me, my face is covered with shame,

¹⁶at the words of blasphemer and scoffer, at the sight of the foe and the vengeful.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you nor falsely dealt with your covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back, nor our steps declined from your way,

¹⁹that you thus should have crushed us down, and covered us over with gloom, in the place where the jackals roam.

²⁰Had we forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a god that was strange,