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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 (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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