# Psalm 44 (New King James Version)
Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor

##### Chapter 44
###### 1 We have heard with our ears, O God,  
Our fathers have told us,  
The deeds You did in their days,  
In days of old:  

###### 2 You drove out the nations with Your hand,  
But them You planted;  
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.  

###### 3 For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,  
Nor did their own arm save them;  
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,  
Because You favored them.

###### 4 You are my King, O God;  
Command victories for Jacob.  

###### 5 Through You we will push down our enemies;  
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.  

###### 6 For I will not trust in my bow,  
Nor shall my sword save me.  

###### 7 But You have saved us from our enemies,  
And have put to shame those who hated us.  

###### 8 In God we boast all day long,  
And praise Your name forever. _Selah_

###### 9 But You have cast _us_ off and put us to shame,  
And You do not go out with our armies.  

###### 10 You make us turn back from the enemy,  
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.  

###### 11 You have given us up like sheep _intended_ for food,  
And have scattered us among the nations.  

###### 12 You sell Your people for _next to_ nothing,  
And are not enriched by selling them.

###### 13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors,  
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.  

###### 14 You make us a byword among the nations,  
A shaking of the head among the peoples.  

###### 15 My dishonor _is_ continually before me,  
And the shame of my face has covered me,  

###### 16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,  
Because of the enemy and the avenger.

###### 17 All this has come upon us;  
But we have not forgotten You,  
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.  

###### 18 Our heart has not turned back,  
Nor have our steps departed from Your way;  

###### 19 But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,  
And covered us with the shadow of death.

###### 20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,  
Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,  

###### 21 Would not God search this out?  
For He knows the secrets of the heart.  

###### 22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;  
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

###### 23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?  
Arise! Do not cast _us_ off forever.  

###### 24 Why do You hide Your face,  
_And_ forget our affliction and our oppression?  

###### 25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;  
Our body clings to the ground.  

###### 26 Arise for our help,  
And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.