Psalms 44:9-20

⁹But now you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced; when our armies march out to fight a battle, you no longer go with them.

¹⁰You have caused us to run away from our enemies, with the result that they captured the things that belonged to us.

¹¹You have allowed us to become like MET sheep that were ready to be slaughtered; you scattered us far away among other nations.

¹²It is as though MET you sold us, your people, to our enemies for a very small price, and you did not gain much profit from selling us!

¹³People who live in nations near us make fun of us; they laugh at us and deride/belittle us.

¹⁴They make jokes using the name of our country, they shake their heads to indicate that they despise us.

¹⁵All day I feel disgraced; from seeing my face, people know that I am ashamed.

¹⁶I hear what those who sneer at me and revile me say; I am ashamed in front of my enemies and those who want to harm me.

¹⁷All these things have happened to us even though we have not forgotten you, and we are not the ones who disobeyed the agreement you made with our ancestors.

¹⁸We have not stopped being loyal to you, and we have not stopped doing what you want us to do IDM.

¹⁹But it is as though you have allowed us to be helpless among wild animals, and abandoned us in a deep dark ravine.

²⁰If we had forgotten to worship MTY our God, or if we had spread out our hands to worship a foreign god,