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