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Greek: Septuagint (LXX)
English: John Barach
Psalm 43 (44)

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Εἰς τὸ τέλος, τοῖς υἱοῖς Κορὲ εἰς σύνεσιν ψαλμός. For the end; for the sons of Korah; for understanding; a psalm.
Recalling the Ancient Mercies
1 [MT=44:1] Ὁ θεός ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν ἡμῶν ἠκούσαμεν, οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν ἀνήγγειλαν ἡμῖν, ἔργον ὃ εἰργάσω ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις αὐτῶν, ἐν ἡμέραις ἀρχαίαις. 2 [MT=44:2] ἡ χείρ σου ἔθνη ἐξωλέθρευσεν, καὶ κατεφύτευσας αὐτούς, ἐκάκωσας λαοὺς καὶ ἐξέβαλες αὐτούς. 3 [MT=44:3] οὐ γὰρ ἐν τῇ ῥομφαίᾳ αὐτῶν ἐκληρονόμησαν γῆν, καὶ ὁ βραχίων αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔσωσεν αὐτούς, ἀλλ' ἡ δεξιά σου καὶ ὁ βραχίων σου, καὶ ὁ φωτισμὸς τοῦ προσώπου σου, ὅτι εὐδόκησας ἐν αὐτοῖς. 43.1 [MT=44:1] O God, we have heard with our ears—our fathers have told us—the work which You performed in their days, in the days of old. 43.2 [MT=44:2] Your hand utterly destroyed the nations, and You planted them; You afflicted the peoples and cast them out. 43.3 [MT=44:3] For it was not by their own sword that they inherited the land, and their own arm did not save them, but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance, because You took pleasure in them.
4 [MT=44:4] Σὺ εἶ αὐτὸς ὁ βασιλεύς μου καὶ ὁ θεός μου, ὁ ἐντελλόμενος τὰς σωτηρίας Ἰακώβ. 5 [MT=44:5] ἐν σοί τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἡμῶν κερατιοῦμεν, καὶ ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου ἐξουθενώσομεν τοὺς ἐπανιστανομένους ἡμῖν. 6 [MT=44:6] οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ τῷ τόξῳ μου ἐλπιῶ, καὶ ἡ ῥομφαία μου οὐ σώσει με. 7 [MT=44:7] ἔσωσας γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῶν θλιβόντων ἡμᾶς, καὶ τοὺς μισοῦντας ἡμᾶς κατῄσχυνας. 8 [MT=44:8] ἐν τῷ θεῷ ἐπαινεσθησόμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, καὶ ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου ἐξομολογησόμεθα εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα· διάψαλμα. 43.4 [MT=44:4] You are my King and my God, who commands the salvations of Jacob. 43.5 [MT=44:5] Through You we will gore our enemies with horns, and through Your name we will bring to nothing those who rise up against us. 43.6 [MT=44:6] For I will not hope in my bow, and my sword shall not save me. 43.7 [MT=44:7] For You saved us from those who afflict us, and You put to shame those who hate us. 43.8 [MT=44:8] In God we shall be praised all day long, and in Your name we will give thanks forever. Pause.
The Present Rejection
9 [MT=44:9] Νυνὶ δὲ ἀπώσω καὶ κατῄσχυνας ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐκ ἐξελεύσῃ ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσιν ἡμῶν. 10 [MT=44:10] ἀπέστρεψας ἡμᾶς εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω παρὰ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ἡμῶν, καὶ οἱ μισοῦντες ἡμᾶς διήρπαζον ἑαυτοῖς. 11 [MT=44:11] ἔδωκας ἡμᾶς ὡς πρόβατα βρώσεως, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν διέσπειρας ἡμᾶς· 12 [MT=44:12] ἀπέδου τὸν λαόν σου ἄνευ τιμῆς, καὶ οὐκ ἦν πλῆθος ἐν τοῖς ἀλλάγμασιν αὐτῶν. 43.9 [MT=44:9] But now You have cast us off and put us to shame, and You will not go forth with our armies. 43.10 [MT=44:10] You turned us back to the rear before our enemies, and those who hate us plundered for themselves. 43.11 [MT=44:11] You gave us up like sheep for eating, and You scattered us among the nations. 43.12 [MT=44:12] You sold Your people without a price, and there was no great number in the exchange for them.
13 [MT=44:13] ἔθου ἡμᾶς ὄνειδος τοῖς γείτοσιν ἡμῶν, μυκτηρισμὸν καὶ καταγέλωτα τοῖς κύκλῳ ἡμῶν. 14 [MT=44:14] ἔθου ἡμᾶς εἰς παραβολὴν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, κίνησιν κεφαλῆς ἐν τοῖς λαοῖς. 15 [MT=44:15] ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ἡ ἐντροπή μου κατεναντίον μού ἐστιν, καὶ ἡ αἰσχύνη τοῦ προσώπου μου ἐκάλυψέν με, 16 [MT=44:16] ἀπὸ φωνῆς ὀνειδίζοντος καὶ παραλαλοῦντος, ἀπὸ προσώπου ἐχθροῦ καὶ ἐκδιώκοντος. 43.13 [MT=44:13] You made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mocking and a laughingstock to those around us. 43.14 [MT=44:14] You made us a proverb among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 43.15 [MT=44:15] All day long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 43.16 [MT=44:16] because of the voice of the one reproaching and slandering, because of the face of the enemy and the pursuer.
The Protest of Innocence
17 [MT=44:17] Ταῦτα πάντα ἦλθεν ἐφ' ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐκ ἐπελαθόμεθά σου καὶ οὐκ ἠδικήσαμεν ἐν διαθήκῃ σου, 18 [MT=44:18] καὶ οὐκ ἀπέστη εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω ἡ καρδία ἡμῶν, καὶ ἐξέκλινας τὰς τρίβους ἡμῶν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ σου. 19 [MT=44:19] ὅτι ἐταπείνωσας ἡμᾶς ἐν τόπῳ κακώσεως, καὶ ἐπεκάλυψεν ἡμᾶς σκιὰ θανάτου. 43.17 [MT=44:17] All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You, and we have not acted unjustly against Your covenant. 43.18 [MT=44:18] Our heart has not turned back to the rear, yet You turned our paths away from Your way. 43.19 [MT=44:19] For You humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death covered us.
20 [MT=44:20] εἰ ἐπελαθόμεθα τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν, καὶ εἰ διεπετάσαμεν χεῖρας ἡμῶν πρὸς θεὸν ἀλλότριον, 21 [MT=44:21] οὐχὶ ὁ θεὸς ἐκζητήσει ταῦτα; αὐτὸς γὰρ γινώσκει τὰ κρύφια τῆς καρδίας. 22 [MT=44:22] ὅτι ἕνεκα σου θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς. 43.20 [MT=44:20] If we had forgotten the name of our God, and if we had spread out our hands to a strange god, 43.21 [MT=44:21] would not God search these things out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. 43.22 [MT=44:22] For for Your sake we are being put to death all day long; we were accounted as sheep for slaughter.
A Call to the Sleeping God
23 [MT=44:23] Ἐξεγέρθητι, ἵνα τί ὑπνοῖς κύριε; ἀνάστηθι, καὶ μὴ ἀπώσῃ εἰς τέλος. 24 [MT=44:24] ἵνα τί τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀποστρέφεις; ἐπιλανθάνῃ τῆς πτωχείας ἡμῶν καὶ τῆς θλίψεως ἡμῶν; 25 [MT=44:25] ὅτι ἐταπεινώθη εἰς χοῦν ἡ ψυχὴ ἡμῶν, ἐκολλήθη εἰς γῆν ἡ γαστὴρ ἡμῶν. 26 [MT=44:26] ἀνάστα κύριε, βοήθησον ἡμῖν, καὶ λύτρωσαι ἡμᾶς ἕνεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματός σου. 43.23 [MT=44:23] Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise, and do not cast us off to the end. 43.24 [MT=44:24] Why do You turn Your face away? Do You forget our poverty and our affliction? 43.25 [MT=44:25] For our soul has been humbled to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the ground. 43.26 [MT=44:26] Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for the sake of Your name.