Psalms 44:8-23

⁸In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves.

¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

¹²Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.

¹⁴Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁵My confusion is continually 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 avenger.

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet we have 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;

¹⁹Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.

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

²¹Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O LORD? arise, cast us not off for ever.