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.

Psalms 44

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.