Psalms 44:9-22

9In God we make our boast all day and Your Name we praise forever. Selah

10Yet You have spurned and humiliated us, and no longer go out with our armies.

11You make us retreat before the enemy. Those who hate us have plundered us.

12You gave us to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.

13You are selling Your people cheaply— not even getting a great price for them.

14You made us a taunt for our neighbors, a scorn and ridicule for those around us.

15You have made us a byword among the nations, head-wagging among the peoples.

16All day my disgrace is before me, and my face is covered with shame—

17because of the sound of taunting and reviling from the face of a vengeful enemy.

18All this came upon us, though we did not forget You, nor were we false to Your covenant.

19Our heart did not turn back, nor did our steps stray from Your path.

20Yet You crushed us in a place of jackals, covered us with the shadow of death.

21If we had forgotten the Name of our God or stretched our hands to a foreign god,

22would God not have discovered it? For He knows the secrets of the heart.