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Psalm 44

44 This is a note for the worship leader: of the Korahites wrote song.

1 God, we listened carefully when our ancestors told us

about the great things you did long ago

when the Israelites first came into the land of Canaan.

2 They told us about how powerfully you forced the other nations to leave

and established our ancestors securely in their land.

It was as if they had been plants that you put firmly in the ground.

You destroyed the people groups that had lived there

and enabled our ancestors to settle there.

3 Our ancestors did not conquer this land with their own weapons

or by their own power.

Instead, you helped them and defeated their enemies

by your own great power.

You did that because you loved them.

4 You are our real king, O God.

Please enable the people of Israel to defeat their enemies.

5 You enable us to defeat our enemies.

Because you help us, we destroy armies that fight against us.

6 We do not expect to win victories

because of the weapons we have.

7 Instead, you rescue us from our enemies.

You disgrace our opponents by defeating them.

8 We regularly celebrate what God has done for us.

We will always praise him. Selah

9 But now it appears that you no longer want to help us.

This has embarrassed us.

When our armies march out to fight a battle,

you no longer enable them to win victories.

10 You make us retreat from our enemies.

We must leave behind weapons and possessions,

and they take as many of those as they want.

11 You have allowed our enemies to slaughter us as if we were sheep.

Foreign armies have captured many of our people

and taken them back to their countries as slaves.

12 You did not even receive any money

for allowing others to take your people as their slaves.

You did not become any richer

as a result of that.

13 Because you no longer help us,

the people groups around us insult us.

They express contempt for us

and laugh at us.

14 People in other nations are using us Israelites

as an example of an unfortunate people group.

They are shaking their heads at us

to ridicule us.

15 I am constantly aware of my disgrace.

I feel complete shame

16 because people are speaking so harshly to me.

Those people are my enemies, and they want to harm me.

17 These things have happened to us

even though we have not stopped worshiping you

and we have not disobeyed the solemn agreement that you made with our ancestors.

18 We still love you as our God,

and we have continued to do what you have commanded us to do.

19 But you have allowed our enemies to ruin our land and leave it desolate.

You have left us feeling as though we are going to die.

20 If we had stopped worshiping you as our God

and had started worshiping a foreign god,

21 you would surely have known that.

That is because you know even what people secretly think.

22 Because you are not helping us,

our enemies are continuing to kill our people.

They believe they can kill us

as easily as if we were sheep,

which people slaughter easily.

23 Protect us! Do not fail to act, Lord, as if you were asleep!

Defend us! Do not keep treating us as if we were not your people!

24 Please be favorable to us and help us!

Consider how badly our enemies are harming us

and how greatly we are suffering!

25 We ask you to do this because we are helpless,

as if we had fallen down

and were lying on the ground and could not get up.

26 You have promised to love us faithfully because we belong to you.

So please do something to rescue us from our enemies!