10 But now Thou hast rejected us, and hast put us to shame, and Thou dost not go out with our armies;

11 He has put us to flight from the enemy, and those who hate us are plundering us.

12 Thou hast given us up as sheep to be devoured, and hast scattered us among the nations;

13 Thou hast sold thy people without profit, and hast not exalted their price;

14 He has given us up to be a reproach to our neighbours, to be a mockery and a reproach to them that dwell around us.

15 Thou hast made us a proverb among the nations, a nod of the head among the foreigners.

16 All day long my shame is before me, and shame covers my face

17 From the voice of the reproach and the slanderer, from the sight of the enemy and the avenger:

18 All these things have come upon us, but we have not forgotten thee, neither have we broken thy covenant.

19 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our feet deviated from thy way,

20 when thou hast crushed us in the land of dragons, and hast covered us with the shadow of death.

21 If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,

22 then would not God have sought this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

23 But for thy sake we are slain all the day, and we are reckoned as sheep to be slaughtered.

24 Arise, that thou sleepest, O Lord! Awake, do not reject forever.

25 Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

26 For our soul is humbled to dust, our womb is clung to the earth.

27 Arise to our help and deliver us for the sake of your mercy.

Psalm 44

1 To the head of the choir. On the musical instrument Shoshan. Teaching. The sons of Korah. Song of Love.

2 A good word has poured out of my heart; I say, My song is about the King; my tongue is the reed of a scribe.