Psalm 44

³that we have heard and known and our fathers have relayed to us.

⁴We will not hide them from their children but will declare to the next generation the praises of the Lord and His might and the wonders He has performed.

¹⁴In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹⁵And when Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the firstborn male of every womb, but I redeem all the firstborn of my sons.’

²⁰In the future, when your son asks, “What is the meaning of the decrees and statutes and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?”

¹³“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the Lord brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the Lord has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

³Tell it to your children; let your children tell it to their children, and their children to the next generation.

⁵I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.

¹⁷You will bring them in and plant them on the mountain of Your inheritance—the place, O Lord, You have prepared for Your dwelling, the sanctuary, O Lord, Your hands have established.

⁵⁵He drove out nations before them and apportioned their inheritance; He settled the tribes of Israel in their tents.

²³So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the Lord had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

¹⁰And I will provide a place for My people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in a place of their own and be disturbed no more. No longer will the sons of wickedness oppress them as they did at the beginning

¹⁰He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:

¹¹Sihon king of the Amorites, Og king of Bashan, and all the kings of Canaan.

⁴³Thus the Lord gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.

⁷The Lord did not set His affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than the other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.

⁸But because the Lord loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

¹⁷You might say in your heart, “The power and strength of my hands have made this wealth for me.”

¹⁸But remember that it is the Lord your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

¹²I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

⁶So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit, says the Lord of Hosts.

⁷Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.

¹⁵With power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

¹²Yet God is my King from ancient times, working salvation on the earth.

⁸The Lord decrees His loving devotion by day, and at night His song is with me as a prayer to the God of my life.

²Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King.

¹⁸Surely our shield belongs to the Lord, and our king to the Holy One of Israel.

²⁵When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”

⁴¹Moved with compassion, Jesus reached out His hand and touched the man. “I am willing,” He said. “Be clean!”

¹³With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

¹²With God we will perform with valor, and He will trample our enemies.

¹⁰All the nations surrounded me, but in the name of the Lord I cut them off.

¹¹They surrounded me on every side, but in the name of the Lord I cut them off.

¹³I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

¹⁷His majesty is like a firstborn bull, and his horns are like those of a wild ox. With them he will gore the nations, even to the ends of the earth. Such are the myriads of Ephraim, and such are the thousands of Manasseh.”

⁴I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.

⁷Yet I will have compassion on the house of Judah, and I will save them—not by bow or sword or war, not by horses and cavalry, but by the Lord their God.”

⁷Some trust in chariots and others in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.

⁴⁷And all those assembled here will know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give all of you into our hands.”

¹⁶No king is saved by his vast army; no warrior is delivered by his great strength.

¹⁷A horse is a vain hope for salvation; even its great strength cannot save.

²⁴and freed us from our enemies. His loving devotion endures forever.

⁷O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.

⁵No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.

¹⁸I will clothe his enemies with shame, but the crown upon him will gleam.”

⁹The Lord has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.

¹⁰One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the Lord your God fights for you, just as He promised.

¹⁰to Him who gives victory to kings, who frees His servant David from the deadly sword.

²My soul boasts in the Lord; let the oppressed hear and rejoice.

²⁴But let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord, who exercises loving devotion, justice and righteousness on the earth—for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.

²⁹so that no one may boast in His presence.

³⁰It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

¹⁷Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;

¹²that my heart may sing Your praises and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks forever.

²⁵In the Lord all descendants of Israel will be justified and will exult.

¹A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

¹⁰Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

¹¹Have You not rejected us, O God? Will You no longer march out, O God, with our armies?

¹For the choirmaster. To the tune of “The Lily of the Covenant.” A Miktam of David for instruction. When he fought Aram-naharaim and Aram-zobah, and Joab returned and struck down 12,000 Edomites in the Valley of Salt. You have rejected us, O God; You have broken us; You have been angry; restore us!

²For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

²⁴“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The Lord has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.

²⁵This is what the Lord says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,

⁸O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

¹⁷And I will set My face against you, so that you will be defeated by your enemies. Those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one pursues you.

¹²This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.

⁴¹All who pass by plunder him; he has become a reproach to his neighbors.

²⁵The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies. You will march out against them in one direction but flee from them in seven. You will be an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

⁶I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.

²⁷Then the Lord will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

⁶⁴Then the Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.

¹²As a shepherd looks for his scattered sheep when he is among the flock, so I will look for My flock. I will rescue them from all the places to which they were scattered on a day of clouds and darkness.

³⁶As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

¹¹On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover the remnant of His people from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.

¹²He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; He will collect the scattered of Judah from the four corners of the earth.

³⁷I will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.

¹³Your wealth and your treasures I will give up as plunder, without charge for all your sins within all your borders.

³⁰How could one man pursue a thousand, or two put ten thousand to flight, unless their Rock had sold them, unless the Lord had given them up?

³For this is what the Lord says: “You were sold for nothing, and without money you will be redeemed.”

⁴For this is what the Lord God says: “At first My people went down to Egypt to live, then Assyria oppressed them without cause.

¹⁴Then the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.

¹This is what the Lord says: “Where is your mother’s certificate of divorce with which I sent her away? Or to which of My creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold for your iniquities, and for your transgressions your mother was sent away.

⁸Then the anger of the Lord burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

⁴We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those around us.

⁶You make us contend with our neighbors; our enemies mock us.

⁹I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

³⁷You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

²⁷Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

³Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy, for we have endured much contempt.

⁴We have endured much scorn from the arrogant, much contempt from the proud.

⁹I will make them a horror and an offense to all the kingdoms of the earth, a disgrace and an object of scorn, ridicule, and cursing wherever I have banished them.

⁴I could also speak like you if you were in my place; I could heap up words against you and shake my head at you.

⁶He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.

³⁷You will become an object of horror, scorn, and ridicule among all the nations to which the Lord will drive you.

²¹This is the word that the Lord has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you.

¹⁵All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

¹⁶All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”

⁷For I have endured scorn for Your sake, and shame has covered my face.

⁵¹“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the Lord’s house.”

²¹and the Lord sent an angel who annihilated every mighty man of valor and every leader and commander in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he withdrew to his own land in disgrace. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons struck him down with the sword.

¹³May the accusers of my soul be ashamed and consumed; may those who seek my harm be covered with scorn and disgrace.

⁷“O, Lord God,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

⁸O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

⁴⁵You have cut short the days of his youth; You have covered him with shame. Selah

²From the mouths of children and infants You have ordained praise on account of Your adversaries, to silence the enemy and avenger.

²²Rise up, O God; defend Your cause! Remember how the fool mocks You all day long.

²³Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

¹⁸Remember how the enemy has mocked You, O Lord, how a foolish people has spurned Your name.

¹⁰How long, O God, will the enemy taunt You? Will the foe revile Your name forever?

¹⁷Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear; open Your eyes, O Lord, and see. Listen to all the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God.

³to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.

⁴Perhaps the Lord your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the Lord your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”

¹³Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

¹²be careful not to forget the Lord who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

¹⁴then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

⁵⁹For this is what the Lord God says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.

⁵⁷They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

¹⁷The wicked will return to Sheol—all the nations who forget God.

⁵¹The arrogant utterly deride me, but I do not turn from Your law.

¹⁵⁷Though my persecutors and foes are many, I have not turned from Your testimonies.

⁵⁷They turned back and were faithless like their fathers, twisted like a faulty bow.

⁶and those who turn back from following the Lord, neither seeking the Lord nor inquiring of Him.”

¹¹My feet have followed in His tracks; I have kept His way without turning aside.

¹²I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.

²⁷because they turned aside from Him and had no regard for any of His ways.

⁴Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

⁵May darkness and gloom reclaim it, and a cloud settle over it; may the blackness of the day overwhelm it.

⁸Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones You have crushed rejoice.

¹⁷You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

²⁹I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

¹³Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.

¹⁴The desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and one wild goat will call to another. There the night creature will settle and find her place of repose.

⁹There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you bow to a foreign god.

¹³As for you, if you direct your heart and lift up your hands to Him,

¹⁴Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you.

³O Lord my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,

⁴if I have rewarded my ally with evil, if I have plundered my foe without cause,

³¹Envoys will arrive from Egypt; Cush will stretch out her hands to God.

⁵If I have walked in falsehood or my foot has rushed to deceit,

⁶let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.

¹⁰I, the Lord, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.

²⁴“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the Lord. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the Lord.

¹⁴For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

²¹For His eyes are on the ways of a man, and He sees his every step.

²²There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.

⁴Does He not see my ways and count my every step?

¹²For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it pierces even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow. It judges the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

¹³Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight; everything is uncovered and exposed before the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.

³⁶As it is written: “For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

⁷He was oppressed and afflicted, yet He did not open His mouth. He was led like a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is silent, so He did not open His mouth.

¹¹You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.

²They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.

³They will do these things because they have not known the Father or Me.

⁹For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.

²¹But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me.

⁶Arise, O Lord, in Your anger; rise up against the fury of my enemies. Awake, my God, and ordain judgment.

⁶⁵Then the Lord awoke as from sleep, like a mighty warrior overcome by wine.

⁷“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?

¹⁴Why, O Lord, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?

²³Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!

¹A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

²⁴Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?

²⁰He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.

⁹I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

¹For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?

²³Do not disregard the clamor of Your adversaries, the uproar of Your enemies that ascends continually.

¹Why, O Lord, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

²⁵My soul cleaves to the dust; revive me according to Your word.

⁵Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps.

¹¹You led us into the net; You laid burdens on our backs.

¹²You let men ride over our heads; we went through fire and water, but You brought us into abundance.

²³I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”

⁷O Israel, put your hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is loving devotion, and with Him is redemption in abundance.

⁸And He will redeem Israel from all iniquity.

²²Redeem Israel, O God, from all its distress.

¹¹But I will walk with integrity; redeem me and be merciful to me.

²Take up Your shield and buckler; arise and come to my aid.