| Chapter
44 |
| 1 | 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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2 | How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst
them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
| 3 | 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. |
| 4 | Thou art my
King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
| 5 | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy
name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| 6 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither
shall my sword save me. |
| 7 |
But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated
us. |
| 8 | In God we boast all
the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
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9 | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and
goest not forth with our armies. |
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10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate
us spoil for themselves. |
| 11 |
Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us
among the heathen. |
| 12 |
Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their
price. |
| 13 | Thou makest us
a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round
about us. |
| 14 | Thou makest
us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
| 15 | My confusion is continually
before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
| 16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth
and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
| 17 | All this is come upon us; yet have we
not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| 18 | Our heart is not turned back,
neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
| 19 | Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of
dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
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20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or
stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
| 21 | Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the
secrets of the heart. |
| 22 |
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for
the slaughter.
Rom 8:36
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| 23 | Awake,
why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. |
| 24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and
forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| 25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly
cleaveth unto the earth. |
| 26 |
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
