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Psalms 44

¹With our own ears we have heard it, O God--- our ancestors have told us about it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago:

²how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.

³Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.

⁴You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people,

⁵and by your power we defeat our enemies.

⁶I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;

⁷but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us.

⁸We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever.

⁹But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated; you no longer march out with our armies.

¹⁰You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.

¹¹You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.

¹²You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.

¹³Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.

¹⁴You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.

¹⁵I am always in disgrace; I am covered with shame

¹⁶from hearing the sneers and insults of my enemies and those who hate me.

¹⁷All this has happened to us, even though we have not forgotten you or broken the covenant you made with us.

¹⁸We have not been disloyal to you; we have not disobeyed your commands.

¹⁹Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.

²⁰If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,

²¹you would surely have discovered it, because you know our secret thoughts.

²²But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time, that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself ! Don't reject us forever!

²⁴Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!

²⁵We fall crushed to the ground; we lie defeated in the dust.

²⁶Come to our aid! Because of your constant love save us!