Psalms 44:9-22

9But now you have turned against us. You have made us ashamed. When our armies go out to fight a battle, you no longer go with us.

10You make us run away from our enemies. The people who hate us take from us whatever they like!

11You have put us under their power, so that they kill us like sheep for them to eat. You have sent us away to live in foreign countries.

12You have sold your own people, for almost nothing! They had no value to you.

13The people who live in countries near us do not respect us. They laugh at us and they insult us.

14The other nations tell jokes about us. They think that we are nothing.

15I feel ashamed all the time. I do not know where to look.

16This is because my cruel enemies are always insulting me. All they want is to hurt me.

17We have not turned away from you, but all this has happened to us. We have not turned against the covenant that you made with us.

18We have continued to serve you and obey your commands.

19But you have broken us in pieces. You have left us for wild dogs to eat. You have covered us with the darkness of death.

20We might have turned against you, our God, and worshipped a strange god.

21But if we had done that, you would have discovered it. You know even our most secret thoughts.

22But, because we are your people, God, people try to kill us all the time. They think that we are like sheep and we are ready to be killed.