44:1  To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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.
 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.
 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.
 44:4  Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
 44:5  Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy
name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
 44:6  For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword
save me.
 44:7  But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put
them to shame that hated us.
 44:8  In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name
for ever. Selah.
 44:9  But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest
not forth with our armies.
 44:10  Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they
which hate us spoil for themselves.
 44:11  Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and
hast scattered us among the heathen.
 44:12  Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not
increase [thy wealth] by their price.
 44:13  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us.
 44:14  Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of
the head among the people.
 44:15  My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame
of my face hath covered me,
 44:16  For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason of the enemy and avenger.
 44:17  All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten
thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
 44:18  Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps
declined from thy way;
 44:19  Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of
dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
 44:20  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched
out our hands to a strange god;
 44:21  Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the
secrets of the heart.
 44:22  Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; 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 hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our
affliction and our oppression?
 44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly
cleaveth unto the earth.
 44:26  Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies'
sake.