Psalms 44
44
Wake Up, Lord, We’re in Trouble
For the Pure and Shining One by the prophetic singers of Korah’s clan
A contemplative poem for instruction
The Past
1-2God, we’ve heard about all the glorious miracles
you’ve done for our ancestors in days gone by.
They told us about the ancient times, how by your power
you drove out the ungodly nations from this land,
crushing all their strongholds and giving the land to us.
Now the people of Israel cover the land
from one end to the other,
all because of your grace and power!
3Our forefathers didn’t take the land by their own strength
or their own skill or strategy.
But it was through the shining forth of your radiant presence
and the display of your mighty power.
You loved to give them victory,
for you took great delight in them.
4You are my God, my King!
It’s now time to decree majesties for Jacob!
5Through your glorious name and your awesome power,
we can push through to any victory and defeat every enemy.
6For I will not trust in the weapons of the world; # 44:6 Or “bow and sword.”
I know they will never save me.
7Only you will be our Savior from all our enemies.
All those who hate us you have brought to shame.
8So now I constantly boast in you.
I can never thank you enough!
Pause in his presence
The Present
9But you have turned your back on us; you walked off and left us!
You’ve rejected us, tossing us aside in humiliating shame.
You don’t go before us anymore in our battles.
10We retreat before our enemies in defeat,
for you are no longer helping us.
Those who hate us have invaded our land
and plundered our people.
11You have treated us like sheep in the slaughter pen,
ready to be butchered.
You’ve scattered us to the four winds.
12You have sold us as slaves for nothing!
You have counted us, your precious ones, as worthless.
13You have caused our neighbors to despise and scorn us.
All those around us mock and curse us.
14You have made us the butt of their jokes.
Disliked by all, we are the laughingstock of the people.
15-16There’s no escape from this constant curse, this humiliation!
We are despised, jeered, overwhelmed by shame,
and overcome at every turn
by our hateful and heartless enemies.
17Despite all of this, we have not forgotten you;
we have not broken covenant with you.
18We have not betrayed you; our hearts are still yours.
Our steps have not strayed from your path.
19Yet you have crushed us,
leaving us in this wilderness place of misery and desperation. # 44:19 Or “in this place of jackals.”
With nowhere else to turn,
death’s dark door seems to be the only way out.
20-21If we had forsaken your holy name, wouldn’t you know it?
You’d be right in leaving us.
If we had worshiped before other gods,
no one would blame you for punishing us.
God, you know our every heart-secret.
You know we still want you!
22Because of you we face death threats every day.
Like martyrs we are dying daily.
We are seen as lambs lined up to be slaughtered as sacrifices.
The Future
23So wake up, Lord God!
Why would you sleep when we’re in trouble?
Are you forsaking us forever?
24You can’t hide your face any longer from us!
How could you forget our agonizing sorrow?
25Now we lay facedown, sinking into the dust of death,
the quicksand of the grave.
26Arise, awake, and come to help us, O Lord.
Let your unfailing love save us from this sorrow!
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Psalm 44
This is a special song that the sons of Korah wrote for the music leader.
God, please help us! #44:1 Verses 1-8 tell us what God did for the Israelites when they came into the country that he had promised to give to them, Canaan. They did not win the land for themselves, but God did it for them. Their enemies were the people that lived in the land before they did. In verses 9-22 we read that something bad has happened. The people are saying that they obeyed their part of the covenant, but God still did not take care of them. In verses 23-26 the person who wrote the psalm prays. He asks God to send help quickly.
1God, we have heard it for ourselves.
Our ancestors told us
what you did for them a long time ago.
2You used your power to chase away the other nations,
so that our ancestors could live in their land.
You punished those nations,
and you helped our ancestors to be free.
3Our ancestors did not get the land
by the power of their own swords.
Their own strength did not win the fight.
It was your own power and strength that did it!
You were kind to them because you were their friend.
4God, you are my king!
You command that Jacob's descendants
must win against their enemies.
5Because of your power,
we can knock down our enemies.
Because of your strength,
we can beat them down.
6I do not trust in my bow and arrows.
It is not my sword
that has helped me to win the fight.
7It is you who rescues us from our enemies.
You bring shame on the people that hate us.
8Every day, we praise you, God.
We will always thank you, all the time,
because you are great!
Selah.
9But now you have turned against us.
You have made us ashamed.
When our armies go out to fight a battle,
you no longer go with us.
10You make us run away from our enemies.
The people who hate us take from us whatever they like!
11You have put us under their power,
so that they kill us like sheep for them to eat.
You have sent us away
to live in foreign countries.
12You have sold your own people,
for almost nothing!
They had no value to you.
13The people who live in countries near us
do not respect us.
They laugh at us
and they insult us.
14The other nations tell jokes about us.
They think that we are nothing.
15I feel ashamed all the time.
I do not know where to look.
16This is because my cruel enemies are always insulting me.
All they want is to hurt me.
17We have not turned away from you,
but all this has happened to us.
We have not turned against the covenant that you made with us.
18We have continued to serve you
and obey your commands.
19But you have broken us in pieces.
You have left us for wild dogs to eat.
You have covered us with the darkness of death.
20We might have turned against you, our God,
and worshipped a strange god.
21But if we had done that,
you would have discovered it.
You know even our most secret thoughts.
22But, because we are your people, God,
people try to kill us all the time.
They think that we are like sheep
and we are ready to be killed.
23 Lord, do something!
Why are you sleeping? Wake up!
Do not turn away from us for ever!
24Why do you turn away from us?
Why do you forget our troubles
and the way that people hurt us?
25We have fallen down in the dirt.
Our bodies are lying on the ground.
26Wake up and help us!
Save us, because of your faithful love.
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