English Bible
Psalms 44
Big screen- 1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
- 2How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
- 3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and yours arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favour unto them.
- 4You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
- 5Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- 6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
- 7But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
- 8In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah.
- 9But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
- 10You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
- 11You have given us like sheep appointed for food; and have scattered us among the heathen.
- 12You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
- 13You make us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
- 14You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
- 15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
- 16For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
- 17All this has come upon us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
- 18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
- 19Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
- 21Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
- 22Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
- 23Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
- 24Wherefore hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
- 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaves unto the earth.
- 26Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake.