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Psalms 44
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1We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
1O God, we have heard with our own ears; our ancestors have told us about the great things you did in their lifetime, back in the ancient days.
2Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.
2With your own power, you drove out other nations and settled our ancestors there; you crushed other peoples, but you made our ancestors flourish.
3For they gat 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 wast favorable unto them.
3It wasn't their own swords that won the land, and their own strength didn't save them. It was your right hand, your power, and the light of your presence, because you loved them.
4Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.
4You are my King, O God; give the command for Jacob to be rescued.
5Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
5Only through you can we push back our enemies; in your name, we will trample those who rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
6I do not trust in my bow to win, and my sword cannot save me.
7But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.
7But you have saved us from our enemies and put those who hate us to shame.
8In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. [Selah
8We brag about God all day long, and we will praise your name forever.
9But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.
9But now you have rejected us and brought us to shame; you no longer go out with our armies into battle.
10Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
10You make us retreat from our enemies, and those who hate us have plundered our belongings.
11Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.
11You have handed us over to be eaten like sheep and have scattered us among the foreign nations.
12Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
12You sold your own people for almost nothing, gaining no wealth from the sale.
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
13You have made us a joke to our neighbors; those around us mock us and make fun of us.
14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
14You have made our name a slang word for failure among the nations; people shake their heads at us in pity or scorn.
15All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,
15I am faced with my disgrace all day long, and I am overwhelmed by my own shame.
16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
16I hear the insults and mocks of those who taunt me; I see the enemy looking for revenge.
17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
17All this has happened to us, even though we haven't forgotten you or broken the promise we made to you.
18Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
18Our hearts have not turned away from you, and our feet have not strayed from your path.
19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
19Yet you have crushed us in a place where wild dogs live and covered us with thick darkness like death.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
20If we had forgotten the name of our God or prayed to a foreign god,
21Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
21wouldn't God have found out? He knows the deepest secrets of every heart.
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
22But it is because of you that we face death all day long; we are treated like sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off for ever.
23Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Do not reject us forever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
24Why do you hide your face from us? Why do you forget our suffering and our pain?碎