KJ3 Literal Translation
Psalms 44
Israel, in memory of former favors, complains of their present evils. Professing integrity, she prays for deliverance. To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the Sons of Korah.
1To the chief musician. A Contemplation for the Sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have recounted to us the work You worked in their days, in the days of old.
2You dispossessed nations with Your hand and planted them. You put evil on peoples and sent them off.
3For they did not inherit the land with their own sword; yea, their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
4You are He, my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.
5Through You we will thrust out our adversaries; through Your name we will trample those rising up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword will not save me.
7But You have saved us from our adversaries and have put to shame those who hate us.
8We boast in God all the day; and we praise Your name forever. Selah.
9Now You have cast us off and have shamed us. And You do not go forth with our armies.
10You make us turn back from the adversary; yea, the ones hating us plunder for themselves.
11You have given us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations.
12For no gain You have sold Your people, and You are not increased by their price.
13You made us a scorn to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.
14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15My reproach is before me all the day; yea, the shame of my face covers me,
16because of the voice of the slanderer and the blasphemer, before the face of the enemy and avenger.
17All this has come upon us, and we have not forgotten You and not have dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not swerved from Your way,
19though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us over with the death-shade.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, and have spread our hands to an alien god,
21shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22Yea, for Your sake we are slain all the day; we are counted as sheep of slaughter.
23Be aroused! Why do You sleep, O God? Awake! Do not cast us off forever.
24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and distress?
25For our soul bows down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.
26Arise for our help and redeem us for the sake of Your kindness.
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