Tehillim 44

²We have heard with our oznayim, O Elohim,

Avoteinu have told us,

what po'al (work) Thou hast wrought in their days,

in the times of old.

³How Thou didst drive out the Goyim with Thy Yad,

but plantedst them;

how Thou didst afflict the peoples,

but for them Thou madest room.

⁴For they got not eretz in possession by their own cherev,

neither did their own zero'a save them,

but Thy Yamin (Right Hand) , and Thine Zero'a,

and the ohr (light) of Thy countenance,

because Thou favored them.

⁵Thou art my Melech, O Elohim;

command yeshu'ot (deliverances) for Ya'akov.

⁶Through Thee will we push down our enemies;

through Thy Shem will we trample them under that rise up against us.

⁷For I will not trust in my keshet (bow) ,

neither shall my cherev save me.

⁸But Thou hast saved us from tzareinu (our enemies) ,

and hast put them to shame that hated us.

⁹In Elohim we boast kol hayom,

and praise Thy Shem l'olam (forever) .

Selah

¹⁰But Thou hast cast off, and disgraced us;

and goest not forth with tzivoteinu (our armies) .

¹¹Thou makest us to turn back from before the tzar (enemy) ;

and they which hate us have taken plunder for themselves.

¹²Thou hast given us up like tzon appointed for food;

and hast scattered us among the Goyim.

¹³Thou sellest Amecha (Thy People) for a mere nothing,

and art not enriched by their price.

¹⁴Thou makest us a cherpah (reproach) to our shchenim (neighbors) ,

a scorn and a derision to them that are all around us.

¹⁵Thou makest us a mashal (byword) among the Goyim,

a shaking of the rosh among the peoples.

¹⁶Kol hayom my dishonor is continually before me,

and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁷At the voice of him that reproacheth and revileth;

by reason of the oyev (enemy) and avenger.

¹⁸All this is come upon us;

yet have we not forgotten Thee,

neither have we dealt falsely in Thy Brit.

¹⁹Libenu (our heart) is not turned back,

neither have our steps departed from Thy way;

²⁰Though Thou hast crushed us in the makom (place, home, haunt) of jackals,

and covered us with the tzalmavet (shadow of death) .

²¹If we have forgotten the Shem of Eloheinu,

or stretched out our palms to an el zar (foreign g-d) ;

²²Shall not Elohim search this out?

For He knoweth the secrets of the lev.

²³Yes, for Thy sake are we killed kol hayom;

we are counted as tzon (sheep) for the tivchah (slaughter) .

²⁴Awake. Why sleepest Thou, Adonoi?

Arise, cast us not off lanetzach (forever) .

²⁵Why hidest Thou Thy face,

and forgettest our oni (misery, affliction) and our oppression?

²⁶For our nefesh is bowed down to the aphar (dust) ;

our beten (belly, body) has deveykus with the dirt.

²⁷Arise for our help,

and redeem us for the sake of Thy chesed.