Psalm 44 NKJV

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A Contemplation<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span> of the sons of Korah.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Ps-44-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>We have heard with our ears, O God,</span></span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-1">Our fathers have told us,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-1">The deeds You did in their days,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-1">In days of old:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>You drove out the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>nations with Your hand,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-2">But them You planted;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-2">You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-3">Nor did their own arm save them;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-3">But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-3">Because You favored them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>You are my King, <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>O God;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-4"><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>Command victories for Jacob.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Through You we will push down our enemies;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-5">Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For I will not trust in my bow,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-6">Nor shall my sword save me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But You have saved us from our enemies,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-7">And have put to shame those who hated us.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In God we boast all day long,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-8">And praise Your name forever. <i class="selah">Selah</i></span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But You have cast <i>us</i> off and put us to shame,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-9">And You do not go out with our armies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You make us turn back from the enemy,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-10">And those who hate us have taken <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>spoil for themselves.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You have given us up like sheep <i>intended</i> for food,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-11">And have scattered us among the nations.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>You sell Your people for <i>next to</i> nothing,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-12">And are not enriched by selling them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>You make us a reproach to our neighbors,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-13">A scorn and a derision to those all around us.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>You make us a byword among the nations,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-14">A shaking of the head among the peoples.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My dishonor <i>is</i> continually before me,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-15">And the shame of my face has covered me,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-16">Because of the enemy and the avenger.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All this has come upon us;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-17">But we have not forgotten You,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-17">Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Our heart has not turned back,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-18">Nor have our steps departed from Your way;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-19">And covered us with the shadow of death.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If we had forgotten the name of our God,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-20">Or stretched<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span> out our hands to a foreign god,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Would not God search this out?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-21">For He knows the secrets of the heart.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-22">We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-23">Arise! Do not cast <i>us</i> off forever.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Why do You hide Your face,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-24"><i>And</i> forget our affliction and our oppression?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For our soul is bowed down to the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>dust;</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-25">Our body clings to the ground.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Arise for our help,</span><br /><span class="text Ps-44-26">And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-14573a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:1">Psalm 44:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb. <i>Maschil</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14574b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:2">Psalm 44:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Gentiles, heathen</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14576c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:4">Psalm 44:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Vg. <i>and my God</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14576d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:4">Psalm 44:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>Who commands</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14582e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:10">Psalm 44:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>plunder</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14592f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:20">Psalm 44:20</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Worshiped</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-14597g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Psalm 44:25">Psalm 44:25</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Ground, in humiliation</span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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