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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 (44:1)

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out (44:2)

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 (44:3)

Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob (44:4)

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us (44:5)

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me (44:6)

But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us (44:7)

In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah (44:8)

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies (44:9)

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves (44:10)

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen (44:11)

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price (44:12)

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us (44:13)

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people (44:14)

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me (44:15)

For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger (44:16)

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant (44:17)

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way (44:18)

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death (44:19)

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god (44:20)

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart (44:21)

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter (44:22)

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever (44:23)

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression (44:24)

For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth (44:25)

Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake (44:26)

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