Arise for our Help - Psalm 44

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We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us,  what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.  Psalm 44:1  KJV

Psalm 44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and  plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast  them out.  

Psalm 44:3 For 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.  

Psalm 44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.  

Psalm 44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name  will we tread them under that rise up against us.  

Psalm 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.  

Psalm 44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.   

Psalm 44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.  Selah.  

Psalm 44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth  with our armies.  

Psalm 44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate  us spoil for themselves.  

Psalm 44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast  scattered us among the heathen.  

Psalm 44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy  wealth by their price.  

Psalm 44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a  derision to them that are round about us.  

Psalm 44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the  head among the people.  

Psalm 44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my  face hath covered me,  

Psalm 44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by  reason of the enemy and avenger.  

Psalm 44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,  neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.  

Psalm 44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined  from thy way;  

Psalm 44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and  covered us with the shadow of death.  

Psalm 44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our  hands to a strange god;  

Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of  the heart.  

Psalm 44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are  counted as sheep for the slaughter.  

Psalm 44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for  ever.  

Psalm 44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction  and our oppression?  

Psalm 44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto  the earth.  

Psalm 44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.  


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