44:2 O God, we have heard with our own ears; our ancestors have told us The deedsyou did in their days, with your own hand in days of old:
44:3 You rooted out nations to plant them, crushed peoples to make room for them.
44:4 Not with their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own armsbring victory; It was your right hand, your own arm, the light of your face foryou favored them.
44:5 You are my king and my God, who bestows victories on Jacob.
44:6 Through you we batter our foes; through your name, trample our adversaries.
44:7 Not in my bow do I trust, nor does my sword bring me victory.
44:8 You have brought us victory over our enemies, shamed those who hate us.
44:9 In God we have boasted all the day long; your name we will praise forever.SelahII
44:10 But now you have rejected and disgraced us; you do not march out with ourarmies.
44:11 You make us retreat before the foe; those who hate us plunder us at will.
44:12 You hand us over like sheep to be slaughtered, scatter us among the nations.
44:13 You sell your people for nothing; you make no profit from their sale.
44:14 You make us the reproach of our neighbors, the mockery and scorn of thosearound us.
44:15 You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
44:16 All day long my disgrace is before me; shame has covered my face
44:17 At the sound of those who taunt and revile, at the sight of the spitefulenemy.III
44:18 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, nor beendisloyal to your covenant.
44:19 Our hearts have not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path.
44:20 Yet you have left us crushed, desolate in a place of jackals; you havecovered us with darkness.
44:21 If we had forgotten the name of our God, stretched out our hands to anothergod,
44:22 Would not God have discovered this, God who knows the secrets of the heart?
44:23 For you we are slain all the day long, considered only as sheep to beslaughtered.IV
44:24 Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rise up! Do not reject us forever!
44:25 Why do you hide your face; why forget our pain and misery?
44:26 We are bowed down to the ground; our bodies are pressed to the earth.
44:27 Rise up, help us! Redeem us as your love demands.