Psalms:44

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* We have heard with our ears , O God , our fathers have told us , what work you did in their days , in the times of old . * How you did drive out the heathen with your hand , and planted them ; how you did afflict the people , and cast them out . * For they got not the land in possession by their own sword , neither did their own arm save them : but your right hand , and yours arm , and the light of your countenance , because you had a favour unto them . * You are my King , O God : command deliverances for Jacob . * Through you will we push down our enemies : through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us . * For I will not trust in my bow , neither shall my sword save me . * But you have saved us from our enemies , and have put them to shame that hated us . * In God we boast all the day long , and praise your name for ever . Selah . * But you have cast off , and put us to shame ; and go not forth with our armies . * You make us to turn back from the enemy : and they which hate us spoil for themselves . * You have given us like sheep appointed for food ; and have scattered us among the heathen . * You sell your people for nothing , and do not increase your wealth by their price . * You make us a reproach to our neighbours , a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us . * You make us a byword among the heathen , a shaking of the head among the people . * My confusion is continually before me , and the shame of my face has covered me , * For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes ; by reason of the enemy and avenger . * All this has come upon us ; yet have we not forgotten you , neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant . * Our heart is not turned back , neither have our steps declined from your way ; * Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons , and covered us with the shadow of death . * If we have forgotten the name of our God , or stretched out our hands to a strange god ; * Shall not God search this out ? for he knows the secrets of the heart . * Yea , for your sake are we killed all the day long ; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter . * Awake , why sleep you , O Lord ? arise , cast us not off for ever . * Wherefore hide you your face , and forget our affliction and our oppression ? * For our soul is bowed down to the dust : our belly cleaves unto the earth . * Arise for our help , and redeem us for your mercies ' sake .

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