Thematic Bible
Psalm 44:1 (show verse)
For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.
Psalm 44:2 (show verse)
You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.
Psalm 44:3 (show verse)
For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them.
Psalm 44:4 (show verse)
You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob's deliverance!
Psalm 44:5 (show verse)
By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes!
Psalm 44:6 (show verse)
For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.
Psalm 44:7 (show verse)
For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us.
Psalm 44:8 (show verse)
In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah)
Psalm 44:9 (show verse)
But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies.
No Themes for this verse.
Psalm 44:10 (show verse)
You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.
Psalm 44:11 (show verse)
You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.
Psalm 44:12 (show verse)
You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.
Psalm 44:13 (show verse)
You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.
Psalm 44:14 (show verse)
You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.
Psalm 44:15 (show verse)
All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame,
Psalm 44:16 (show verse)
before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.
Psalm 44:17 (show verse)
All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.
Psalm 44:18 (show verse)
We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands.
Psalm 44:19 (show verse)
Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.
Psalm 44:20 (show verse)
If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,
Psalm 44:21 (show verse)
would not God discover it, for he knows one's thoughts?
Psalm 44:22 (show verse)
Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
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Psalm 44:23 (show verse)
Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever!
Psalm 44:24 (show verse)
Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
Psalm 44:25 (show verse)
For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.
Psalm 44:26 (show verse)
Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love!