{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/44","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:48:16.972Z"},"reference":{"translation":"AKJV","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":44,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":43,"nextChapter":45,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever.  Selah."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies' sake."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 44 (AKJV)","markdown":"[Psalms 44](https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/44)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* AKJV. https://primebible.com/akjv/psalms/44 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}