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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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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
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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. |
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |