Psalms 44 — TOJB

44Verse 1(For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. A maskil)^{Verse 2}We 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.
^{Verse 3}How Thou didst drive out the Goyim with Thy Yad,
but plantedst them;
how Thou didst afflict the peoples,
but for them Thou madest room.
^{Verse 4}For 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.^{Verse 5}Thou art my Melech, O Elohim;
command yeshu'ot (deliverances) for Ya'akov.
^{Verse 6}Through Thee will we push down our enemies;
through Thy Shem will we trample them under that rise up against us.
^{Verse 7}For I will not trust in my keshet (bow),
neither shall my cherev save me.
^{Verse 8}But Thou hast saved us from tzareinu (our enemies),
and hast put them to shame that hated us.
^{Verse 9}In Elohim we boast kol hayom,
and praise Thy Shem l'olam (forever).
Selah^{Verse 10}But Thou hast cast off, and disgraced us;
and goest not forth with tzivoteinu (our armies).
^{Verse 11}Thou makest us to turn back from before the tzar (enemy);
and they which hate us have taken plunder for themselves.
^{Verse 12}Thou hast given us up like tzon appointed for food;
and hast scattered us among the Goyim.
^{Verse 13}Thou sellest Amecha (Thy People) for a mere nothing,
and art not enriched by their price.
^{Verse 14}Thou makest us a cherpah (reproach) to our shchenim (neighbors),
a scorn and a derision to them that are all around us.
^{Verse 15}Thou makest us a mashal (byword) among the Goyim,
a shaking of the rosh among the peoples.
^{Verse 16}Kol hayom my dishonor is continually before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered me,
^{Verse 17}At the voice of him that reproacheth and revileth;
by reason of the oyev (enemy) and avenger.^{Verse 18}All this is come upon us;
yet have we not forgotten Thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in Thy Brit.
^{Verse 19}Libenu (our heart) is not turned back,
neither have our steps departed from Thy way;
^{Verse 20}Though Thou hast crushed us in the makom (place, home, haunt) of jackals,
and covered us with the tzalmavet (shadow of death).
^{Verse 21}If we have forgotten the Shem of Eloheinu,
or stretched out our palms⁺to an el zar (foreign g-d);
^{Verse 22}Shall not Elohim search this out?
For He knoweth the secrets of the lev.
^{Verse 23}Yes, for Thy sake are we killed kol hayom;
we are counted as tzon (sheep) for the tivchah (slaughter).^{Verse 24}Awake. Why sleepest Thou, Adonoi?
Arise, cast us not off lanetzach (forever).
^{Verse 25}Why hidest Thou Thy face,
and forgettest our oni (misery, affliction) and our oppression?
^{Verse 26}For our nefesh is bowed down to the aphar (dust);
our beten (belly, body) has deveykus with the dirt.
^{Verse 27}Arise for our help,
and redeem us for the sake of Thy chesed.