Psalm 44
44:1 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.
44:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
44:3 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.
44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will
we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to
shame that hated us.
44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
Selah.
44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth
with our armies.
44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
us spoil for themselves.
44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen.
44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
wealth by their price.
44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
derision to them that are round about us.
44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head
among the people.
44:15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face
hath covered me,
44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason
of the enemy and avenger.
44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined
from thy way;
44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our
hands to a strange god;
44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the
heart.
44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted
as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for
ever.
44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction
and our oppression?
44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto
the earth.
44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy merciesβ sake.
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