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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Psalm 44 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/psalms/44.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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45">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">A Prayer for Protection<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.44.1!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </h3><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_1"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.1" class="v19_44_1">1</span>With our own ears we have heard it, O God—</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_1">our ancestors have told us about it,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_1">about the great things you did in their time,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_1">in the days of long ago:</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_2"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.2" class="v19_44_2">2</span>how you yourself drove out the heathen</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_2">and established your people in their land;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_2">how you punished the other nations</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_2">and caused your own to prosper.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_3"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.3" class="v19_44_3">3</span>Your people did not conquer the land with their swords;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_3">they did not win it by their own power;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_3">it was by your power and your strength,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_3">by the assurance of your presence,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_3">which showed that you loved them.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_4"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.4" class="v19_44_4">4</span>You are my king and my God;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_4">you give<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.44.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> victory to your people,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_5"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.5" class="v19_44_5">5</span>and by your power we defeat our enemies.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_6"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.6" class="v19_44_6">6</span>I do not trust in my bow</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_6">or in my sword to save me;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_7"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.7" class="v19_44_7">7</span>but you have saved us from our enemies</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_7">and defeated those who hate us.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_8"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.8" class="v19_44_8">8</span>We will always praise you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_8">and give thanks to you forever.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_9"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.9" class="v19_44_9">9</span>But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_9">you no longer march out with our armies.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_10"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.10" class="v19_44_10">10</span>You made us run from our enemies,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_10">and they took for themselves what was ours.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_11"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.11" class="v19_44_11">11</span>You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_11">you scattered us in foreign countries.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_12"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.12" class="v19_44_12">12</span>You sold your own people for a small price</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_12">as though they had little value.<a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.44.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_13"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.13" class="v19_44_13">13</span>Our neighbors see what you did to us,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_13">and they mock us and laugh at us.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_14"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.14" class="v19_44_14">14</span>You have made us a joke among the nations;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_14">they shake their heads at us in scorn.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_15"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.15" class="v19_44_15">15</span>I am always in disgrace;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_15">I am covered with shame</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_16"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.16" class="v19_44_16">16</span>from hearing the sneers and insults</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_16">of my enemies and those who hate me.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_17"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.17" class="v19_44_17">17</span>All this has happened to us,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_17">even though we have not forgotten you</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_17">or broken the covenant you made with us.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_18"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.18" class="v19_44_18">18</span>We have not been disloyal to you;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_18">we have not disobeyed your commands.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_19"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.19" class="v19_44_19">19</span>Yet you left us helpless among wild animals;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_19">you abandoned us in deepest darkness.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_20"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.20" class="v19_44_20">20</span>If we had stopped worshiping our God</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_20">and prayed to a foreign god,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_21"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.21" class="v19_44_21">21</span>you would surely have discovered it,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_21">because you know our secret thoughts.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_22"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.22" class="v19_44_22">22</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Ps.44.22!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_22">that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_23"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.23" class="v19_44_23">23</span>Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_23">Rouse yourself! Don't reject us forever!</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_24"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.24" class="v19_44_24">24</span>Why are you hiding from us?</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_24">Don't forget our suffering and trouble!</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_25"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.25" class="v19_44_25">25</span>We fall crushed to the ground;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_25">we lie defeated in the dust.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v19_44_26"><span class="reftext" id="Ps.44.26" class="v19_44_26">26</span>Come to our aid!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v19_44_26">Because of your constant love save us!</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">HEBREW TITLE: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">A poem by the clan of Korah.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">44.4: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Some ancient translations </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and my God; you give; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew </char><char style="fq" closed="false">O God; give.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">44.12: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">as … value; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">and made no profit from the sale.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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