Psalm 44 - NKJV Bible Online

Psalm 44

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Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor

To the Chief Musician. A ^aContemplation¹ of the sons of Korah.

We have heard with our ears, O God,

^bOur fathers have told us,

The deeds You did in their days,

In days of old:

^aYou drove out the ¹nations with Your hand,

But them You planted;

You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.

For ^athey 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,

^bBecause You favored them.

^aYou are my King, ¹O God;

²Command victories for Jacob.

Through You ^awe will push down our enemies;

Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.

For ^aI will not trust in my bow,

Nor shall my sword save me.

But You have saved us from our enemies,

And have put to shame those who hated us.

^aIn God we boast all day long,

And praise Your name forever.

Selah

But ^aYou have cast us off and put us to shame,

And You do not go out with our armies.

You make us ^aturn back from the enemy,

And those who hate us have taken ¹spoil for themselves.

^aYou have given us up like sheep intended for food,

And have ^bscattered us among the nations.

^aYou sell Your people for next to nothing,

And are not enriched by selling them.

^aYou make us a reproach to our neighbors,

A scorn and a derision to those all around us.

^aYou make us a byword among the nations,

^bA shaking of the head among the peoples.

My dishonor is continually before me,

And the shame of my face has covered me,

Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,

^aBecause of the enemy and the avenger.

^aAll this has come upon us;

But we have not forgotten You,

Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back,

^aNor have our steps departed from Your way;

But You have severely broken us in ^athe place of jackals,

And covered us ^bwith the shadow of death.

If we had forgotten the name of our God,

Or ^astretched¹ out our hands to a foreign god,

^aWould not God search this out?

For He knows the secrets of the heart.

^aYet for Your sake we are killed all day long;

We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

^aAwake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?

Arise! Do not cast us off forever.

^aWhy do You hide Your face,

And forget our affliction and our oppression?

For ^aour soul is bowed down to the ¹dust;

Our body clings to the ground.

Arise for our help,

And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.

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