­PSA 44:1  We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what

 work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

 

­PSA 44:2  How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst

 them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

 

­PSA 44:3  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.

 

­PSA 44:4  Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

 

­PSA 44:5  Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we

 tread them under that rise up against us.

 

­PSA 44:6  For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

 

­PSA 44:7  But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame

 that hated us.

 

­PSA 44:8  In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.

 Selah.

 

­PSA 44:9  But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with

 our armies.

 

­PSA 44:10  Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us

 spoil for themselves.

 

­PSA 44:11  Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered

 us among the heathen.

 

­PSA 44:12  Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth

 by their price.

 

­PSA 44:13  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision

 to them that are round about us.

 

­PSA 44:14  Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head

 among the people.

 

­PSA 44:15  My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath

 covered me,

 

­PSA 44:16  For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason

 of the enemy and avenger.

 

­PSA 44:17  All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither

 have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

 

­PSA 44:18  Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from

 thy way;

 

­PSA 44:19  Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered

 us with the shadow of death.

 

­PSA 44:20  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands

 to a strange god;

 

­PSA 44:21  Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the

 heart.

 

­PSA 44:22  Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as

 sheep for the slaughter.

 

­PSA 44:23  Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

 

­PSA 44:24  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and

 our oppression?

 

­PSA 44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the

 earth.

 

­PSA 44:26  Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.