Psalms:42-44-49
rsv@Psalms:42:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
rsv@Psalms:42:2 @ As a hart longs for flowing streams, so longs my soul for thee, O God.
rsv@Psalms:42:3 @ My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
rsv@Psalms:42:4 @ My tears have been my food day and night, while men say to me continually, "Where is your God?"
rsv@Psalms:42:5 @ These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng, and led them in procession to the house of God, with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
rsv@Psalms:42:6 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help
rsv@Psalms:42:7 @ and my God. My soul is cast down within me, therefore I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
rsv@Psalms:42:8 @ Deep calls to deep at the thunder of thy cataracts; all thy waves and thy billows have gone over me.
rsv@Psalms:42:9 @ By day the LORD commands his steadfast love; and at night his song is with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
rsv@Psalms:42:10 @ I say to God, my rock: "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
rsv@Psalms:42:11 @ As with a deadly wound in my body, my adversaries taunt me, while they say to me continually, "Where is your God?" [ (Psalms strkjv@42:12) Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God. ]
rsv@Psalms:43:1 @ Vindicate me, O God, and defend my cause against an ungodly people; from deceitful and unjust men deliver me!
rsv@Psalms:43:2 @ For thou art the God in whom I take refuge; why hast thou cast me off? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
rsv@Psalms:43:3 @ Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me, let them bring me to thy holy hill and to thy dwelling!
rsv@Psalms:43:4 @ Then I will go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy; and I will praise thee with the lyre, O God, my God.
rsv@Psalms:43:5 @ Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my help and my God.
rsv@Psalms:44:1 @ To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah.
rsv@Psalms:44:2 @ We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days of old:
rsv@Psalms:44:3 @ thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;
rsv@Psalms:44:4 @ for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.
rsv@Psalms:44:5 @ Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.
rsv@Psalms:44:6 @ Through thee we push down our foes; through thy name we tread down our assailants.
rsv@Psalms:44:7 @ For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
rsv@Psalms:44:8 @ But thou hast saved us from our foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.
rsv@Psalms:44:9 @ In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:44:10 @ Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.
rsv@Psalms:44:11 @ Thou hast made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.
rsv@Psalms:44:12 @ Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.
rsv@Psalms:44:13 @ Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
rsv@Psalms:44:14 @ Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those about us.
rsv@Psalms:44:15 @ Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
rsv@Psalms:44:16 @ All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
rsv@Psalms:44:17 @ at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.
rsv@Psalms:44:18 @ All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.
rsv@Psalms:44:19 @ Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from thy way,
rsv@Psalms:44:20 @ that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.
rsv@Psalms:44:21 @ If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
rsv@Psalms:44:22 @ would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
rsv@Psalms:44:23 @ Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
rsv@Psalms:44:24 @ Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
rsv@Psalms:44:25 @ Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?
rsv@Psalms:44:26 @ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground. [ (Psalms strkjv@44:27) Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love! ]
rsv@Psalms:45:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah; a love song.
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