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44:1  For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. A maskil:
44:2  God, we heard it with our ears; our fathers told us about it — a deed which you did in their days, back in days of old.
44:3  With your hand you drove out nations to plant them in [the land], you crushed peoples to make room for them.
44:4  For not by their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; rather, it was your right hand, your arm and the light of your face; because you favored them.
44:5  God, you are my king; command complete victory for Ya‘akov.
44:6  Through you we pushed away our foes, through your name we trampled down our assailants.
44:7  For I don’t rely on my bow, nor can my sword give me victory.
44:8  No, you saved us from our adversaries; you put to shame those who hate us.
44:9  We will boast in our God all day and give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)
44:10  Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don’t march out with our armies.
44:11  You make us retreat from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder us at will.
44:12  You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten and scattered us among the nations.
44:13  You sell your people for a pittance, you don’t even profit on the sale.
44:14  You make us an object for our neighbors to mock, one of scorn and derision to those around us.
44:15  You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.
44:16  All day long my disgrace is on my mind, and shame has covered my face
44:17  at the sound of those who revile and insult, at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.
44:18  Though all this came on us, we did not forget you; we have not been false to your covenant;
44:19  Our hearts have not turned back, and our steps did not turn away from your path,
44:20  though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.
44:21  If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
44:22  wouldn’t God have discovered this, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
44:23  For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.
44:24  Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don’t thrust us off forever.
44:25  Why are you turning your face away, forgetting our pain and misery?
44:26  For we are lying flat in the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.