Psalm 44 — Legacy Standard Bible

Rise Up, Be Our Help

For the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A ¹Maskil.

O God, we have heard with our ears,Our ^afathers have recounted to usThe ^bwork that You did in their days,In the ^cdays of old.²You with Your own hand ^adispossessed the nations;Then You ^bplanted them;You ^cafflicted the peoples,Then You ^dcast them out.³For by their own sword they ^adid not possess the land,And their own arm did not save them,But Your right hand and Your ^barm and the ^clight of Your presence,For You ^dfavored them.⁴You are ^amy King, O God;^bCommand ¹salvation for Jacob.⁵Through You we will ^apush back our adversaries;Through Your name we will ^btread down those who rise up against us.⁶For I will ^anot trust in my bow,And my sword will not save me.⁷But You ^ahave saved us from our adversaries,And You have ^bput to shame those who hate us.⁸In God we have ^aboasted all day long,And we will ^bgive thanks to Your name forever. ¹ Selah.⁹Yet You ^ahave rejected us and brought us to ^bdishonor,And ^cdo not go out with our armies.¹⁰You cause us to ^aturn back from the adversary;And those who hate us ^bhave plundered us for themselves.¹¹You give us as ^asheep ¹to be eatenAnd have ^bscattered us among the nations.¹²You ^asell Your people ¹for no amount,And You have not ²profited from their price.¹³You make us a ^areproach to our neighbors,A mockery and a ^bderision to those around us.¹⁴You make us ^aa byword among the nations,A ¹^,^blaughingstock among the peoples.¹⁵All day long my dishonor is before meAnd ¹the ^ashame of my face has covered me,¹⁶Because of the voice of him who ^areproaches and reviles,Because of the presence of the ^benemy and the avenger.¹⁷All this has come upon us, but we have ^anot forgotten You,And we have not ^bdealt falsely with Your covenant.¹⁸Our heart has not ^aturned back,Nor have our steps ^bdeviated from Your path,¹⁹Yet You have ^acrushed us in a place of ^bjackalsAnd covered us with ^cthe shadow of death.²⁰If we had ^aforgotten the name of our GodOr spread our ¹hands to ^ba strange god,²¹Would not God ^afind this out?For He knows the secrets of the heart.²²But ^afor Your sake we are killed all day long;We are counted as ^bsheep for the slaughter.²³^aArouse Yourself, why ^bdo You sleep, O Lord?Awake, ^cdo not reject us forever.²⁴Why do You ^ahide Your faceAnd ^bforget our affliction and our oppression?²⁵For our ^asoul has sunk down into the dust;Our ¹body cleaves to the earth.²⁶^aRise up, be our help,And ^bredeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.