The Present State of Defeat and Rejection

Psalms 44:9-16

In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.

Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.

Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.

Thou sellest Thy people--without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.

Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.

All the day my confusion is before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.

Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.