Thematic Bible

Psalm 44:1

O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us, - The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime:

Psalm 44:2

Thou thyself, with thine own hand - Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:

Psalm 44:3

For, not by their own sword, gat they possession of the land, Nor did, their own arm, win victory for them, - But thine own right hand, and thine own arm, and the light of thy face, Because thou hadst accepted them.

Psalm 44:4

Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.

Psalm 44:5

By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;

Psalm 44:6

For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;

Psalm 44:7

For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.

Psalm 44:8

In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name - unto times age-abiding, will we praise. Selah.

Psalm 44:9

But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;
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Psalm 44:10

Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:

Psalm 44:11

Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.

Psalm 44:12

Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.

Psalm 44:13

Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:

Psalm 44:14

Thou dust make us, A by-word among the nations, - A shaking of the head among the peoples.

Psalm 44:15

All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:

Psalm 44:16

At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.

Psalm 44:17

All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;

Psalm 44:18

Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;

Psalm 44:19

That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.

Psalm 44:20

If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,

Psalm 44:21

Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?

Psalm 44:22

Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.
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Psalm 44:23

Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!

Psalm 44:24

Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?

Psalm 44:25

For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.

Psalm 44:26

Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.