PSALM 44: Your enemies will fear and honour you..

Your enemies will fear and honour you when reading this psalm always.  Its prayers are the prayer under Psalm 16.

Psalm 44

1 O Elohim,
    we have heard it with our own ears.
    Our ancestors have told us
        about the miracle you performed in their day,
            in days long ago.
2 By your power you forced nations out of the land,
    but you planted our ancestors there.
    You shattered many groups of people,
    but you set our ancestors free.
3 It was not with their swords that they took possession of the land.
    They did not gain victory with their own strength.
    It was your right hand, your arm,
    and the light of your presence that did it,
        because you were pleased with them.

4 You alone are my Melek, O Elohim.
    You won those victories for Jacob.
5 With you we can walk over our enemies.
    With your name we can trample those who attack us.
        
            and my sword will never save me.
7 But you saved us from our enemies.
    You put to shame those who hate us.
8 All day long we praise our Elohim.
    We give thanks to you forever. Selah

9 But now you have rejected and disgraced us.
    You do not even go along with our armies.
10 You make us retreat from the enemy.
    Those who hate us rob us at will.
11 You hand us over to be butchered like sheep
    and scatter us among the nations.
12 You sell your people for almost nothing,
    and at that price you have gained nothing.
13 You made us a disgrace to our neighbors
    and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
14 You made our defeat a proverb among the nations
    so that people shake their heads at us.
15 All day long my disgrace is in front of me.
    Shame covers my face
16 because of the words of those who insult and slander us,
    because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.

17 Although all of this happened to us,
    we never forgot you.
    We never ignored your promise.
18 Our hearts never turned away.
    Our feet never left your path.
19 Yet, you crushed us in a place for jackals
    and covered us with the shadow of death.

20 If we forgot the name of our Elohim
    or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,
21 wouldn’t Elohim find out,
    since he knows the secrets in our hearts?
22 Indeed, we are being killed all day long because of you.
    We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.

23 Wake up! Why are you sleeping, O Adonay?
    Awake! Do not reject us forever!
24 Why do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our suffering and misery?
25 Our souls are bowing in the dust.
    Our bodies cling to the ground.
26 Arise! Help us!
    Rescue us because of your mercy!

PRAYER:

Psalm 16

1 Protect me, O El, because I take refuge in you.

2 I said to Yahweh,

    “You are my Adonay. Without you, I have nothing good.”

3 Those who lead holy lives on earth

    are the noble ones who fill me with joy.

4 Those who quickly chase after other gods multiply their sorrows.

    I will not pour out their sacrificial offerings of blood

        or use my lips to speak their names.

5 Yahweh is my inheritance and my cup.

    You are the one who determines my destiny.

6 Your boundary lines mark out pleasant places for me.

    Indeed, my inheritance is something beautiful.

7 I will praise Yahweh, who advises me.

    My conscience warns me at night.

8 I always keep Yahweh in front of me.

    When he is by my side, I cannot be moved.

9         That is why my heart is glad and my soul rejoices.

            My body rests securely

10 because you do not abandon my soul to the grave

    or allow your holy one to decay.

11 You make the path of life known to me.

    Complete joy is in your presence.

        Pleasures are by your side forever.