For the choirmaster. A Maskil + 44:1 Maskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. of the sons of Korah.
441We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.+2Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad.+3For they gat 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 wast favorable unto them.+4Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.+5Through thee will we push down our adversaries: 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.+7But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us.+8In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever.[Selah+9But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts.+10Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.+11Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations.+12Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price.+13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.+14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.+15All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me,+16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.+17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.+18Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way,+19That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.+20If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;+21Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.+22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.+23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.+24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?+25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth.+26Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness’ sake.+
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