noyes - 44

noyes@Psalms:44:1 @ O God! we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us, What deeds thou didst in their days, In the days of old.

noyes@Psalms:44:2 @ With thine own hand didst thou drive out the nations, And plant our fathers; Thou didst destroy the nations, And cause our fathers to flourish.

noyes@Psalms:44:3 @ For not by their own swords did they gain possession of the land, Nor did their own arms give them victory; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance; For thou didst favor them!

noyes@Psalms:44:4 @ Thou art my king, O God! O send deliverance to Jacob!

noyes@Psalms:44:5 @ Through thee we may cast down our enemies; Through thy name we may trample upon our adversaries!

noyes@Psalms:44:6 @ I trust not in my bow, Nor can my sword save me.

noyes@Psalms:44:7 @ But it is thou only who savest us from our enemies, And puttest to shame those who hate us!

noyes@Psalms:44:8 @ In God will we glory continually; Yea, we will praise thy name for ever!

noyes@Psalms:44:9 @ Yet now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame; Thou goest not forth with our armies.

noyes@Psalms:44:10 @ Thou makest us turn back from the enemy, And they who hate us make our goods their prey.

noyes@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou makest us like sheep destined for food, And scatterest us among the nations.

noyes@Psalms:44:12 @ Thou sellest thy people for nought, And increasest not thy wealth by their price.

noyes@Psalms:44:13 @ Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those who are around us.

noyes@Psalms:44:14 @ Thou makest us a byword among the nations, And causest the people to shake their heads at us.

noyes@Psalms:44:15 @ My ignominy is continually before me, And shame covereth my face,

noyes@Psalms:44:16 @ On account of the voice of the scoffer and the reviler, And on account of the enemy and the avenger.

noyes@Psalms:44:17 @ All this hath come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Nor have we been false to thy covenant.

noyes@Psalms:44:18 @ Our hearts, have not wandered from thee, Nor have our feet gone out of thy path;

noyes@Psalms:44:19 @ Though thou hast crushed us in a land of jackals, And covered us with thick darkness.

noyes@Psalms:44:20 @ If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched forth our hands to a strange God,

noyes@Psalms:44:21 @ Surely God would search it out; For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

noyes@Psalms:44:22 @ But for thy sake we are killed all the day; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

noyes@Psalms:44:23 @ Awake! why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise! cast us not off for ever!

noyes@Psalms:44:24 @ Wherefore dost thou hide thy face, And forget our affliction and oppression?

noyes@Psalms:44:25 @ Our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body cleaveth to the earth.

noyes@Psalms:44:26 @ Arise, O thou, our strength! And deliver us, for thy mercys sake!

Psalms 44