• Psalms 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.

  • Psalms 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.

  • Psalms 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.

  • Psalms 44:4

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

  • Psalms 44:5

    Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

  • Psalms 44:6

    For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

  • Psalms 44:7

    But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

  • Psalms 44:8

    In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

  • Psalms 44:9

    But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

  • Psalms 44:10

    Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

  • Psalms 44:11

    Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

  • Psalms 44:12

    Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

  • Psalms 44:13

    Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

  • Psalms 44:14

    Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

  • Psalms 44:15

    My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

  • Psalms 44:16

    For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

  • Psalms 44:17

    All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

  • Psalms 44:18

    Our heart is not turned back, neither have our stepsa declined from thy way;

  • Psalms 44:19

    Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

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