Psalms 43

¹Unto the end. To the sons of Korah, toward understanding

²We have heard, O God, with our own ears. Our fathers have announced to us the work that you wrought in their days and in the days of antiquity

³Your hand dispersed the Gentiles, and you transplanted them. You afflicted a people, and you expelled them

⁴For they did not take possession of the land by their sword, and their own arm did not save them. But your right hand and your arm, and the light of your countenance did so, because you were pleased with them

⁵You yourself are my king and my God, who commands the salvation of Jacob

⁶With you, we will brandish a horn before our enemies; and in your name, we will spurn those rising up against us

⁷For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword will not save me

⁸For you have saved us from those who afflict us, and you have bewildered those who hate us

⁹In God, we will give praise all day long; and in your name, we will confess forever

¹⁰But now, you have rejected and bewildered us, and you will not go forth with our armies, O God

¹¹You have turned our back to our enemies, and those who hated us have plundered for themselves

¹²You have given us over like sheep for food. You have scattered us among the Gentiles

¹³You have sold your people without a price, and no great number was exchanged for them

¹⁴You have set us as a disgrace to our neighbors, a scoff and a derision to those who are around us

¹⁵You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples

¹⁶All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me

¹⁷before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer

¹⁸All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant

¹⁹And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way

²⁰For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us

²¹If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god

²²will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter

²³Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end

²⁴Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation

²⁵For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth

²⁶Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name