Psalms 44:9-26

9But now you have rejected and disgraced us. You do not even go along with our armies.

10You make us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us rob us at will.

11You hand us over to be butchered like sheep and scatter us among the nations.

12You sell your people for almost nothing, and at that price you have gained nothing.

13You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

14You made our ⌞defeat⌟ a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.

15All day long my disgrace is in front of me. Shame covers my face

16because of the words of those who insult and slander us, because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

17Although all of this happened to us, we never forgot you. We never ignored your promise.

18Our hearts never turned away. Our feet never left your path.

19Yet, you crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.

20If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,

21wouldn’t God find out, since he knows the secrets in our hearts?

22Indeed, we are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

23Wake up! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject us forever!

24Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our suffering and misery?

25Our souls are bowing in the dust. Our bodies cling to the ground.

26Arise! Help us! Rescue us because of your mercy!