Psalm 44:9-26 - Heartlight

⁹But You have rejected and humbled us;

You no longer go forth with our armies.

¹⁰You have made us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us have plundered us.

¹¹You have given us up as sheep to be devoured;

You have scattered us among the nations.

¹²You sell Your people for nothing;

no profit do You gain from their sale.

¹³You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,

a mockery and derision to those around us.

¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations,

a laughingstock among the peoples.

¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,

and shame has covered my face,

¹⁶at the voice of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

¹⁷All this has come upon us,

though we have not forgotten You

or betrayed Your covenant.

¹⁸Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from Your path.

¹⁹But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals;

You have covered us with deepest darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God

or spread out our hands to a foreign god,

²¹would not God have discovered,

since He knows the secrets of the heart?

²²Yet for Your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.

²³Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping?

Arise! Do not reject us forever.

²⁴Why do You hide Your face

and forget our affliction and oppression?

²⁵For our soul has sunk to the dust;

our bodies cling to the earth.

²⁶Rise up; be our help!

Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

— Psalm 44:9-26

(BSB)

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