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