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A Maskil<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Probably a musical or liturgical term">a</a></sup></span> of the Sons of Korah.</subheading><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">O God, we have heard with our ears,</span><br /><span class="indent">our fathers have told us,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">what deeds you performed in their days,</span><br /><span class="indent">in the days of old:</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">you with your own hand drove out the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">but them you planted;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you afflicted the peoples,</span><br /><span class="indent">but them you set free;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">for not by their own sword did they win the land,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor did their own arm save them,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">but your right hand and your arm,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the light of your face,</span><br /><span class="indent">for you delighted in them.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You are my King, O God;</span><br /><span class="indent">ordain salvation for Jacob!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Through you we push down our foes;</span><br /><span class="indent">through your name we tread down 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><span class="ln-group">For not in my bow do I trust,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor can my sword save me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But you have saved us from our foes</span><br /><span class="indent">and have put to shame those who hate us.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">In God we have boasted continually,</span><br /><span class="indent">and we will give thanks to your name forever. <selah>Selah</selah></span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But you have rejected us and disgraced us</span><br /><span class="indent">and have not gone out with our armies.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have made us turn back from the foe,</span><br /><span class="indent">and those who hate us have gotten spoil.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have made us like sheep for slaughter</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">You have sold your people for a trifle,</span><br /><span class="indent">demanding no high price for them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,</span><br /><span class="indent">the derision and scorn of those around us.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have made us a byword among the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent">a laughingstock<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew a shaking of the head">b</a></sup></span> among the peoples.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All day long my disgrace is before me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shame has covered my face</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">at the sound of the taunter and reviler,</span><br /><span class="indent">at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All this has come upon us,</span><br /><span class="indent">though we have not forgotten you,</span><br /><span class="indent">and we have not been false to your covenant.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Our heart has not turned back,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">yet you have broken us in the place of jackals</span><br /><span class="indent">and covered us with the shadow of death.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If we had forgotten the name of our God</span><br /><span class="indent">or spread 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><span class="ln-group">would not God discover this?</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long;</span><br /><span class="indent">we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?</span><br /><span class="indent">Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Why do you hide your face?</span><br /><span class="indent">Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For our soul is bowed down to the dust;</span><br /><span class="indent">our belly clings to the ground.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/psalms/44-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Rise up; come to our help!</span><br /><span class="indent">Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Probably a musical or liturgical term<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">14</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">a</span> shaking of the head</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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