Psalms 44:9-25

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

¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.

¹¹Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, 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 neighbors, A scoffing 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 dishonor 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;

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

²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.