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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 you didst in their days, in the times of old. |
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How you didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how you 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 your arm, and the light of thy countenance, because you hadst a favour unto them. | |
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Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
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Through you 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 you have saved us from our enemies, and have 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 you have cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
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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 have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen. |
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Thou sellest thy people for nothing, 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 has covered me, |
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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 you have 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 you 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. |
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