Psalms 44
1Unto the end. For those who will be changed. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding. A Canticle for the Beloved.
2My heart has uttered a good word. I speak of my works to the king. My tongue is like the pen of a scribe who writes quickly.
3You are a brilliant form before the sons of men. Grace has been poured freely into your lips. Because of this, God has blessed you in eternity.
4Fasten your sword to your thigh, O most powerful one.
5With your splendor and your excellence extended, proceed prosperously, and reign for the sake of truth and meekness and justice, and so will your right hand lead you wondrously.
6Your arrows are sharp; the people will fall under you, with the hearts of the enemies of the king.
7Your throne, O God, is forever and ever. The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of true aim.
8You have loved justice and hated iniquity. Because of this, God, your God, has anointed you, before your co-heirs, with the oil of gladness.
9Myrrh and balsam and cinnamon perfume your garments, from the houses of ivory. From these, they have delighted you:
10the daughters of kings in your honor. The queen assisted at your right hand, in clothing of gold, encircled with diversity.
11Listen, daughter, and see, and incline your ear. And forget your people and your father’s house.
12And the king will desire your beauty. For he is the Lord your God, and they will adore him.
13And the daughters of Tyre will entreat your countenance with gifts: all the rich men of the people.
14All the glory of the daughter of its king is inside, in golden fringes,
15clothed all around with diversities. After her, virgins will be led to the king. Her neighbors will be brought to you.
16They will be brought with gladness and exultation. They will be led into the temple of the king.
17For your fathers, sons have been born to you. You will establish them as leaders over all the earth.
18They will remember your name always, for generation after generation. Because of this, people will confess to you in eternity, even forever and ever.
1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3For 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.
4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.