Holman Christian Standard Bible

Psalms 44:10-20 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

10. You make us retreat from the foe,and those who hate ushave taken plunder for themselves.

11. You hand us over to be eaten like sheepand scatter us among the nations.

12. You sell Your people for nothing;You make no profit from selling them.

13. You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.

14. You make us a joke among the nations,a laughingstock among the peoples.

15. My disgrace is before me all day long,and shame has covered my face,

16. because of the voice of the scorner and reviler,because of the enemy and avenger.

17. All this has happened to us,but we have not forgotten Youor betrayed Your covenant.

18. Our hearts have not turned back;our steps have not strayed from Your path.

19. But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackalsand have covered us with deepest darkness.

20. If we had forgotten the name of our Godand spread out our hands to a foreign god,