Psalm 44

¹To him that excelleth. A Psalme to give instruction, committed to the sonnes of Korah. We haue heard with our eares, O God: our fathers haue tolde vs the workes, that thou hast done in their dayes, in the olde time:

²Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thine hand, and planted them: how thou hast destroyed the people, and caused them to grow.

³For they inherited not the lande by their owne sworde, neither did their owne arme saue them: but thy right hand, and thine arme and the light of thy countenance, because thou didest fauour them.

⁴Thou art my King, O God: send helpe vnto Iaakob.

⁵Through thee haue we thrust backe our aduersaries: by thy Name haue we troden downe them that rose vp against vs.

⁶For I do not trust in my bowe, neither can my sworde saue me.

⁷But thou hast saued vs from our aduersaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate vs.

⁸Therefore will wee praise God continually, and will confesse thy Name for euer. Selah.

⁹But now thou art farre off, and puttest vs to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.

¹⁰Thou makest vs to turne backe from the aduersary, and they, which hate vs, spoile for theselues.

¹¹Thou giuest vs as sheepe to bee eaten, and doest scatter vs among the nations.

¹²Thou sellest thy people without gaine, and doest not increase their price.

¹³Thou makest vs a reproche to our neighbours, a iest and a laughing stocke to them that are round about vs.