Psa44

Psalms – Chapter 44

¹For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.

I

²O God, we have heard with our own ears;

our ancestors have told us

The deeds you did in their days,

with your own hand in days of old:

³You rooted out nations to plant them,

crushed peoples and expelled them.

⁴Not with their own swords did they conquer the land,

nor did their own arms bring victory;

It was your right hand, your own arm,

the light of your face for you favored them.

⁵You are my king and my God,

who bestows victories on Jacob.

⁶Through you we batter our foes;

through your name we trample our adversaries.

⁷Not in my bow do I trust,

nor does my sword bring me victory.

⁸You have brought us victory over our enemies,

shamed those who hate us.

⁹In God we have boasted all the day long;

your name we will praise forever.

Selah

II

¹⁰But now you have rejected and disgraced us;

you do not march out with our armies.

¹¹You make us retreat before the foe;

those who hate us plunder us at will.

¹²You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered,

scatter us among the nations.

¹³You sell your people for nothing;

you make no profit from their sale.

¹⁴You make us the reproach of our neighbors,

the mockery and scorn of those around us.

¹⁵You make us a byword among the nations;

the peoples shake their heads at us.

¹⁶All day long my disgrace is before me;

shame has covered my face

¹⁷At the sound of those who taunt and revile,

at the sight of the enemy and avenger.

III

¹⁸All this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten you,

nor been disloyal to your covenant.

¹⁹Our hearts have not turned back,

nor have our steps strayed from your path.

²⁰Yet you have left us crushed,

desolate in a place of jackals;

you have covered us with a shadow of death.

²¹If we had forgotten the name of our God,

stretched out our hands to another god,

²²Would not God have discovered this,

God who knows the secrets of the heart?

²³For you we are slain all the day long,

considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.

IV

²⁴Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord?

Rise up! Do not reject us forever!

²⁵Why do you hide your face;

why forget our pain and misery?

²⁶For our soul has been humiliated in the dust;

our belly is pressed to the earth.

²⁷Rise up, help us!

Redeem us in your mercy.

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THE REVISED NEW AMERICAN BIBLE
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)