{"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/dbt/psalms/44","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T00:37:24.819Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Psalms","bookSlug":"psalms","chapter":44,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":43,"nextChapter":45,"totalChapters":150,"totalVerses":26},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god,"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake."}],"citation":{"inline":"Psalms 44 (DBT)","markdown":"[Psalms 44](https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/44)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/psalms/44 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}