web - Psalms:43-45

web@Psalms:43:1 @ Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

web@Psalms:43:2 @ For you are the God of my strength. Why have you rejected me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

web@Psalms:43:3 @ Oh, send out your light and your truth. Let them lead me. Let them bring me to your holy hill, To your tents.

web@Psalms:43:4 @ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.

web@Psalms:43:5 @ Why are you in despair, my soul? Why are you disturbed within me? Hope in God! For I shall still praise him: my Savior, my helper, and my God.

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.

web@Psalms:45:1 @ For the Chief Musician. Set to "The Lilies." A contemplation by the sons of Korah. A wedding song. My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

web@Psalms:45:2 @ You are the most excellent of the sons of men. Grace has anointed your lips, therefore God has blessed you forever.

web@Psalms:45:3 @ Strap your sword on your thigh, mighty one: your splendor and your majesty.

web@Psalms:45:4 @ In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display awesome deeds.

web@Psalms:45:5 @ Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.

web@Psalms:45:6 @ Your throne, God, is forever and ever. A scepter of equity is the scepter of your kingdom.

web@Psalms:45:7 @ You have loved righteousness, and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.

web@Psalms:45:8 @ All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.

web@Psalms:45:9 @ Kings' daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

web@Psalms:45:10 @ Listen, daughter, consider, and turn your ear. Forget your own people, and also your father's house.

web@Psalms:45:11 @ So the king will desire your beauty, honor him, for he is your lord.

web@Psalms:45:12 @ The daughter of Tyre comes with a gift. The rich among the people entreat your favor.

web@Psalms:45:13 @ The princess inside is all glorious. Her clothing is interwoven with gold.

web@Psalms:45:14 @ She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.

web@Psalms:45:15 @ With gladness and rejoicing they shall be led. They shall enter into the king's palace.

web@Psalms:45:16 @ Your sons will take the place of your fathers. You shall make them princes in all the earth.

web@Psalms:45:17 @ I will make your name to be remembered in all generations. Therefore the peoples shall give you thanks forever and ever. {}

web@Psalms:46:1 @ For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. According to Alamoth.Alamoth is a musical term. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.