44:7 For you deliver 1 us from our enemies;
you humiliate 2 those who hate us.
44:8 In God I boast all day long,
and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah)
44:9 But 3 you rejected and embarrassed us!
You did not go into battle with our armies. 4
44:10 You made us retreat 5 from the enemy.
Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. 6
44:11 You handed us 7 over like sheep to be eaten;
you scattered us among the nations.
44:12 You sold 8 your people for a pittance; 9
you did not ask a high price for them. 10
44:13 You made us 11 an object of disdain to our neighbors;
those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. 12
44:14 You made us 13 an object of ridicule 14 among the nations;
foreigners treat us with contempt. 15
44:15 All day long I feel humiliated 16
and am overwhelmed with shame, 17
44:16 before the vindictive enemy
who ridicules and insults me. 18
44:17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you 19
or violated your covenant with us. 20
44:18 We have not been unfaithful, 21
nor have we disobeyed your commands. 22
44:19 Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; 23
you have covered us with darkness. 24
44:20 If we had rejected our God, 25
and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, 26
44:21 would not God discover it,
for he knows 27 one’s thoughts? 28
44:22 Yet because of you 29 we are killed all day long;
we are treated like 30 sheep at the slaughtering block. 31
44:23 Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
Wake up! 32 Do not reject us forever!
44:24 Why do you look the other way, 33
and ignore 34 the way we are oppressed and mistreated? 35
44:25 For we lie in the dirt,
with our bellies pressed to the ground. 36
44:26 Rise up and help us!
Rescue us 37 because of your loyal love!