Ps 44
0 Psalm 44 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
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We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work you did in
their days, In the days of old.
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You did drive out the nations with your hand; But them you did plant: You did afflict
the peoples; But them you did spread abroad.
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For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their
own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your
countenance, Because you were favorable to them.
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You are my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.
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Through you will we push down our adversaries: Through your name will we tread them
under that rise up against us.
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For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
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But you have saved us from our adversaries, And have put them to shame that hate us.
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In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks to your name
for ever. Selah
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But now you have cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And go not forth
with our hosts.
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You make us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for
themselves.
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You have made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And have scattered us among the
nations.
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You sell your people for nothing, And have not increased [your wealth] by their price.
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You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are
round about us.
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You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
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All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,
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For the voice of him whom reproaches and blasphemes, By reason of the enemy and the
avenger.
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All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we dealt falsely
in your covenant.
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Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from your way,
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That you have sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow
of death.
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
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Will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
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Yea, for your sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the
slaughter.
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Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever.
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Wherefore hide you your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaves to the earth.
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Rise up for our help, And redeem us for your lovingkindness` sake. Psalm
45 For the Chief Musician; set to Shoshannim. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
A Song of loves.