The Singing Of Psalm 44

Psalm 44 is being sung extemporaneously, without reading it in written music. The singer is believing that the Holy Spirit will provide the tune as they take faith and begin to sing. Music and arrangement Copyright 2022 Create New Day Music

God, we have heard with our ears
Our fathers have told us
The work that You did in their days
In the days of old.
You with Your own hand drove out the nations
Then You planted them
You afflicted the peoples
Then You let them go free.
For by their own sword they did not possess the land
And their own arm did not save them
But Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your presence
For You favored them.
You are my King, God
Command victories for Jacob.
Through You we will push back our adversaries
Through Your name we will trample down
Those who rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow
Nor will my sword save me.
But You have saved us from our adversaries
And You have put to shame those who hate us.
In God we have boasted all day long
And we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah
Yet You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor
And do not go out with our armies.
You cause us to turn back from the enemy
And those who hate us have taken spoils for themselves.
You turn us over to be eaten like sheep
And have scattered us among the nations.
You sell Your people cheaply
And have not profited by their sale.
You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors
Of scoffing and ridicule to those around us.
You make us a proverb among the nations
A laughingstock among the peoples.
All day long my dishonor is before me
And I am covered with my humiliation
Because of the voice of one who taunts and reviles
Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.
All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten You
And we have not dealt falsely with Your covenant.
Our heart has not turned back
And our steps have not deviated from Your way
Yet You have crushed us in a place of jackals
And covered us with deep darkness.
If we had forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our hands to a strange god
Would God not find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
But for Your sake we are killed all day long
We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
Wake Yourself up, why do You sleep, Lord?
Awake, do not reject us forever.
Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and oppression?
For our souls have sunk down into the dust
Our bodies cling to the earth.
Rise up, be our help
And redeem us because of Your mercy.