# Psalms 44 [[Psalms 43|←]] • [[Psalms 45|→]] --- To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. ### 1 We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. ### 2 thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. ### 3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. ### 4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. ### 5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. ### 6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. ### 7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. ### 8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. ### 9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. ### 10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. ### 11 Thou hast given us like sheep for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. ### 12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase by their price. ### 13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. ### 14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. ### 15 My confusion continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, ### 16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. ### 17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. ### 18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; ### 19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. ### 20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; ### 21 Shall not God search out? this for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. ### 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. ### 23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast off not for ever. ### 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, forgettest our affliction and our oppression? ### 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. ### 26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.