Noyes - Psalms - 44

44:1  O God! we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us, What deeds thou didst in their days, In the days of old.

44:2  With thine own hand didst thou drive out the nations, And plant our fathers; Thou didst destroy the nations, And cause our fathers to flourish.

44:3  For not by their own swords did they gain possession of the land, Nor did their own arms give them victory; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; For thou didst favor them!

44:4  Thou art my king, O God! O send deliverance to Jacob!

44:5  Through thee we may cast down our enemies; Through thy name we may trample upon our adversaries!

44:6  I trust not in my bow, Nor can my sword save me.

44:7  But it is thou only who savest us from our enemies, And puttest to shame those who hate us!

44:8  In God will we glory continually; Yea, we will praise thy name for ever! [Pause.]

44:9  Yet now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame; Thou goest not forth with our armies.

44:10  Thou makest us turn back from the enemy, And they who hate us make our goods their prey.

44:11  Thou makest us like sheep destined for food, And scatterest us among the nations.

44:12  Thou sellest thy people for nought, And increasest not thy wealth by their price.

44:13  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those who are around us.

44:14  Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.

44:15  My ignominy is continually before me, And shame covereth my face,

44:16  On account of the voice of the scoffer and the reviler, And on account of the enemy and the avenger.

44:17  All this hath come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Nor have we been false to thy covenant.

44:18  Our hearts, have not wandered from thee, Nor have our feet gone out of thy path;

44:19  Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.

44:20  If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched forth our hands to a strange God,

44:21  Surely God would search it out; For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

44:22  But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

44:23  Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!

44:24  Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?

44:25  Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.

44:26  Arise, O thou, our strength! And deliver us, for thy mercy’s sake!