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CHAPTER 44

1
For the choirmaster.
A Maskil
of the sons
of Korah.
We have heard
with our ears,
O God;
our fathers
have told us
the work
You did
in their days,
in days
of long ago.
2
With Your hand
You
drove out
the nations
and planted our fathers there;
You crushed
the peoples
and cast them out.
3
For
it was not
by their sword
that they took
the land;
their arm
did not
bring them victory;
it was
by Your right hand,
Your arm,
and the light
of Your face;
for
You delighted in them.
4
You
are my King,
O God,
who ordains
victories
for Jacob.
5
Through You
we repel
our foes;
through Your name
we trample
our enemies.
6
For
I do not
trust
in my bow,
nor does my sword
deliver me.
7
But
You give us victory
over our enemies;
You put those who hate us
to shame.
8
In God
we have boasted
all day long,
and Your name
we will praise
forever.
Selah
9
But
You have rejected
and humbled us;
You no longer
go forth
with our armies.
10
You have made us retreat
from
the foe,
and those who hate us
have plundered us.
11
You have given us up
as sheep
to be devoured;
You have scattered us
among the nations.
12
You sell
Your people
for nothing;
no
profit
do You gain
from their sale.
13
You have made us
a reproach
to our neighbors,
a mockery
and derision
to those around us.
14
You have made us
a byword
among the nations,
a laughingstock
among
the peoples.
15
All day long
my disgrace
is before me
and shame
has covered
my face,
16
at the voice
of the scorner
and reviler,
because of
the enemy,
bent on revenge.
17
All
this
has come upon us,
though we have not
forgotten You
or betrayed
Your covenant.
18
Our hearts
have not
turned back;
our steps
have not strayed
from
Your path.
19
But
You have crushed us
in the lair
of jackals;
You have covered
us with deepest darkness.
20
If
we had forgotten
the name
of our God
or spread out
our hands
to a foreign
god,
21
would not
God
have discovered,
since
He
knows
the secrets
of the heart?
22
Yet
for Your sake
we face death
all day long;
we are considered
as sheep
to be slaughtered.
23
Wake up,
O Lord!
Why
are You sleeping?
Arise!
Do not
reject us forever.
24
Why
do You hide
Your face
and forget
our misery
and oppression?
25
For
our soul
has sunk
to the dust;
our bodies
cling
to the earth.
26
Rise up,
be our help!
Redeem us
on account of
Your loving devotion.
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