---
title: Joseph Smith Translation (1867 edition)
description: Psalms from the Joseph Smith Translation (JST), 1867 edition.
authors:
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
collections:
  - joseph-smith
tags:
  - translation
published: "1867"
publisher: RLDS Publication Board
publisher_place: Plano, Illinois
publisher_note: "The title page reads: Published by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; Joseph Smith, I. L. Rogers, E. Robinson, Publishing Committee; 1867."
edition: First edition (Plano, 1867)
language: en
type: book
chapter: 44
verse_count: 26
reference: "Joseph Smith Jr., *Joseph Smith Translation*, first edition (Plano, IL: RLDS Publication Board, 1867), Psalms, chap. 44, https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft."
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  identifier: holyscripturestr00smituoft
  scan: University of Toronto / Trinity College Library copy, Internet Archive
  transcription: "OCR text of the 1867 scans (Toronto copy and a second copy, holyscriptures00smit), reconciled word by word; Romans was also checked against the page images. Method, per-chapter validation log and known limits: docs/jst-1867-import.md."
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: 1867 US publication
  source: https://archive.org/details/holyscripturestr00smituoft
  publication_year: 1867
---

# Psalms 44

*Former favor and present evils contrasted. To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.*

**1** We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
**2** How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
**3** For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
**4** Thou art my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.
**5** Through thee will we push down our enemies; through thy name will we tread them under that rise against us.
**6** For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
**7** But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
**8** In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
**9** But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
**10** Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy; and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
**11** Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
**12** Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
**13** Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
**14** Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
**15** My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
**16** For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
**17** All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
**18** Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
**19** Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
**20** If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
**21** Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
**22** for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
**23** Awake, why sleepest thou, O rd? arise, cast us not off for ever.
**24** Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
**25** For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
**26** Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.