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Psalm 44
Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650)
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Vers 1
O God, we with our ears have heard,
our fathers have us told,
What works thou in their days hadst done,
ev’n in the days of old.Vers 2
Thy hand did drive the heathen out,
and plant them in their place;
Thou didst afflict the nations,
but them thou didst increase.Vers 3
For neither got their sword the land,
nor did their arm them save;
But thy right hand, arm, countenance;
for thou them favour gave.Vers 4
Thou art my King: for Jacob, Lord,
deliv’rances command.
Through thee we shall push down our foes,
that do against us stand:Vers 5
We, through thy name, shall tread down those
that ris’n against us have.
For in my bow I shall not trust,
nor shall my sword me save.Vers 6
But from our foes thou hast us sav’d,
our haters put to shame.
In God we all the day do boast,
and ever praise thy name.Vers 7
But now we are cast off by thee,
and us thou putt’st to shame;
And when our armies do go forth,
thou go’st not with the same.Vers 8
Thou mak’st us from the enemy,
faint-hearted, to turn back;
And they who hate us for themselves
our spoils away do take.Vers 9
Like sheep for meat thou gavest us;
’mong heathen cast we be.
Thou didst for nought thy people sell;
their price enrich’d not thee.Vers 10
Thou mak’st us a reproach to be
unto our neighbours near;
Derision and a scorn to them
that round about us are.Vers 11
A by-word also thou dost us
among the heathen make;
The people, in contempt and spite,
at us their heads do shake.Vers 12
Before me my confusion
continually abides;
And of my bashful countenance
the shame me ever hides:Vers 13
For voice of him that doth reproach,
and speaketh blasphemy;
By reason of th’ avenging foe,
and cruel enemy.Vers 14
All this is come on us, yet we
have not forgotten thee;
Nor falsely in thy covenant
behav’d ourselves have we.Vers 15
Back from thy way our heart not turn’d;
our steps no straying made;
Though us thou brak’st in dragons’ place,
and cover’dst with death’s shade.Vers 16
If we God’s name forgot, or stretch’d
to a strange god our hands,
Shall not God search this out? for he
heart’s secrets understands.Vers 17
Yea, for thy sake we’re kill’d all day,
counted as slaughter-sheep.
Rise, Lord, cast us not ever off;
awake, why dost thou sleep?Vers 18
O wherefore hidest thou thy face?
forgett’st our cause distress’d,
And our oppression? For our soul
is to the dust down press’d:Vers 19
Our belly also on the earth
fast cleaving, hold doth take.
Rise for our help, and us redeem,
ev’n for thy mercies’ sake.
Scottish Metrical Psalter (1650)
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About this psalm
Psalm 44 is a psalm of Korach and belongs to Book II (Psalm 42–72) of the Psalter.
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