Psalms 44 (NET)

Psalms 44:1¹O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:2²You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:3³For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength, and good favor, for you were partial to them.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:4⁴You are my king, O God. Decree Jacob’s deliverance.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:5⁵By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:6⁶For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:7⁷For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:8⁸In God we boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah)LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:9⁹But you rejected and embarrassed us. You did not go into battle with our armies.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:10¹⁰You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:11¹¹You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:12¹²You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:13¹³You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:14¹⁴You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:15¹⁵All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame,LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:16¹⁶before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:17¹⁷All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:18¹⁸We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:19¹⁹Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:20²⁰If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:21²¹would not God discover it, for he knows a person’s secret thoughts?LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:22²²Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:23²³Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:24²⁴Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:25²⁵For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy

Psalms 44:26²⁶Rise up and help us. Rescue us because of your loyal love.LinkCopyStudyKJV+Strong'sLinkCopyStudy