PSALMS 44:8-20

⁸In God have we made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah

⁹But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonour; and goest not forth with our hosts.

¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the nations.

¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price.

¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁵All the day long is my dishonour before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

¹⁹That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;