| Chapter 44 |
1 | To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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.
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2 | How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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3 | For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor to them.
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4 | Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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5 | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us.
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6 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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7 | But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
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8 | In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
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9 | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
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10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves.
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11 | Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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12 | Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
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13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.
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14 | Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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15 | My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
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17 | All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
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18 | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
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19 | Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death.
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20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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21 | Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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22 | Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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24 | Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
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26 | Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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