Psalm 44, side by side

¹We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

¹We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

²You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

²How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

³For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

³For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

⁴You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

⁴Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

⁵Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.

⁵Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

⁷But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

⁷But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

⁸In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever.

⁸In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

⁹But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.

⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

¹⁰You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

¹¹You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

¹²You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

¹³You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

¹⁴You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

¹⁵All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

¹⁵My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁶at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.

¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

¹⁸Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

¹⁹though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,

²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

²¹won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

²²Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.

²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

²⁴Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

²⁶Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.

²⁶Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.