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web@Psalms:44:1 @ For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old.

web@Psalms:44:2 @ You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.

web@Psalms:44:3 @ For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.

web@Psalms:44:4 @ You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!

web@Psalms:44:5 @ Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.

web@Psalms:44:6 @ For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

web@Psalms:44:7 @ But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.

web@Psalms:44:8 @ In God we have made our boast all day long, we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

web@Psalms:44:9 @ But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don't go out with our armies.

web@Psalms:44:10 @ You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

web@Psalms:44:11 @ You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.

web@Psalms:44:12 @ You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.

web@Psalms:44:13 @ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

web@Psalms:44:14 @ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

web@Psalms:44:15 @ All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,

web@Psalms:44:16 @ At the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.

web@Psalms:44:17 @ All this has come on us, yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.

web@Psalms:44:18 @ Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,

web@Psalms:44:19 @ Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

web@Psalms:44:20 @ If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;

web@Psalms:44:21 @ won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

web@Psalms:44:22 @ Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.

web@Psalms:44:23 @ Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? {The word translated "Lord" is "Adonai."} Arise! Don't reject us forever.

web@Psalms:44:24 @ Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

web@Psalms:44:25 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.

web@Psalms:44:26 @ Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness' sake.

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