Salmos 44

¹For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites. I O God, we have heard with our own ears; our ancestors have told us The deeds you did in their days, with your own hand in days of old:

²You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples to make room for them.

³Not with their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arms bring victory; It was your right hand, your own arm, the light of your face for you favored them.

⁴You are my king and my God, who bestows victories on Jacob.

⁵Through you we batter our foes; through your name, trample our adversaries.

⁶Not in my bow do I trust, nor does my sword bring me victory.

⁷You have brought us victory over our enemies, shamed those who hate us.

⁸In God we have boasted all the day long; your name we will praise forever. Selah

⁹II But now you have rejected and disgraced us; you do not march out with our armies.

¹⁰You make us retreat before the foe; those who hate us plunder us at will.

¹¹You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered, scatter us among the nations.

¹²You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.

¹³You make us the reproach of our neighbors, the mockery and scorn of those around us.

¹⁴You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me; shame has covered my face

¹⁶At the sound of those who taunt and revile, at the sight of the spiteful enemy.

¹⁷III All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, nor been disloyal to your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.

¹⁹Yet you have left us crushed, desolate in a place of jackals; you have covered us with darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God, stretched out our hands to another god,

²¹Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?

²²For you we are slain all the day long, considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³IV Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rise up! Do not reject us forever!

²⁴Why do you hide your face; why forget our pain and misery?

²⁵We are bowed down to the ground; our bodies are pressed to the earth.

²⁶Rise up, help us! Redeem us as your love demands.