44: 1 Former Deliverances and Present Troubles. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maskil. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
44: 2 Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
44: 3 For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them.
44: 4 Thou art my King, O God: Command ²⁶¹deliverance for Jacob.
²⁶¹Or, victories or, salvations

44: 5 Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44: 6 For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
44: 7 But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.
44: 8 In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.
44: 9 [Selah But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
44: 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
44: 11 Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
44: 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
44: 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
44: 14 Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
44: 15 All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,
44: 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
44: 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44: 18 Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
44: 19 That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
44: 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
44: 21 Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
44: 22 Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
44: 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, ²⁶²O Jehovah? Arise, cast us not off for ever.
²⁶²Sopherim changed to O Lord

44: 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
44: 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
44: 26 Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness’ sake.