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Psalms - ch 44 v 1 - 20
- 1 O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
- Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.
- For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.
- Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.
- Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
- For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
- For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
- In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah.
- But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;
- Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;
- Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;
- Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;
- Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
- Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
- Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.
- All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:
- Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;
- Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
- If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange ùgod,
- To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.
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