The Present State of Defeat and Rejection

Psalms 44:9-16

Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don't march out with our armies.

You make us retreat from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder us at will.

You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten and scattered us among the nations.

You sell your people for a pittance, you don't even profit on the sale.

You make us an object for our neighbors to mock, one of scorn and derision to those around us.

You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.

All day long my disgrace is on my mind, and shame has covered my face

at the sound of those who revile and insult, at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.