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 times of old.+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 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.+4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.+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.+7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.+8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.+9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.+10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.+11Thou hast given us like sheep
appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.+12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase
thy wealth by their price.+13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.+14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.+15My confusion
is continually 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 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;+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 stretched out our hands to a strange god;+21Shall 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 counted 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 belly cleaveth unto the earth.+26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.+
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