1(44-1) For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. (44-2) O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.

2(44-3) Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.

3(44-4) For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou wast favourable unto them.

4(44-5) Thou art my King, O God; command the salvation of Jacob.

5(44-6) Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.

6(44-7) For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me.

7(44-8) But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

8(44-9) In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah

9(44-10) Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.

10(44-11) Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.

11(44-12) Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.

12(44-13) Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.

13(44-14) Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

14(44-15) Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

15(44-16) All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

16(44-17) For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.

17(44-18) All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.

18(44-19) Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;

19(44-20) Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

20(44-21) If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

21(44-22) Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.

22(44-23) Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

23(44-24) Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.

24(44-25) Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

25(44-26) For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

26(44-27) Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.