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