Psalm Chapter 44 (KJV)
King James Version
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1. 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. | |
2. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. | |
3. 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. | |
4. Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. | |
5. Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. | |
6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. | |
7. But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. | |
8. In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. | |
9. But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. | |
10. Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. | |
11. Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. | |
12. Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. | |
13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. | |
14. Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. | |
15. My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, | |
16. For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. | |
17. All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. | |
18. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; | |
19. Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. | |
20. If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange God; | |
21. Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. | |
22. Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. | |
23. Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. | |
24. Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? | |
25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. | |
26. Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
King James Version
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