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The Book of Psalms, 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.
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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,
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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.
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