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Chapter 44
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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. |
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Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through
thy 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 thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put
them to shame that hated us. |
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In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name
for ever. Selah. |
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But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest
not forth with our armies. |
10
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they
which hate us spoil for themselves. |
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and
hast scattered us among the heathen. |
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Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase
thy wealth by their price. |
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn
and a derision to them that are round about us. |
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking
of the head among the people. |
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My confusion is continually before me, and the shame
of my face hath covered me, |
16
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
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All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten
thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps
declined from thy way; |
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
and covered us with the shadow of death. |
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched
out our hands to a strange god; |
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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets
of the heart. |
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we
are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not
off for ever. |
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our
affliction and our oppression? |
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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. |
