PS-44:1 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We

have heard

with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou

didst in

their days, in the times of old.

PS-44:2 [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,

and plantedst

them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

PS-44:3 For they got not the land in possession by their own

sword, neither

did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm,

and the light

of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

PS-44:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

PS-44:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy

name will we

tread them under that rise up against us.

PS-44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword

save me.

PS-44:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put

them to shame

that hated us.

PS-44:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name

for ever. Selah.

PS-44:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest

not forth with

our armies.

PS-44:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they

which hate us

spoil for themselves.

PS-44:11 Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and

hast

scattered us among the heathen.

PS-44:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not

increase [thy

wealth] by their price.

PS-44:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn

and a derision

to them that are round about us.

PS-44:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of

the head

among the people.

PS-44:15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame

of my face

hath covered me,

PS-44:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;

by reason of

the enemy and avenger.

PS-44:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten

thee, neither

have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

PS-44:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps

declined from

thy way;

PS-44:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,

 and covered

us with the shadow of death.

PS-44:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched

out our hands

to a strange god;

PS-44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the

secrets of the

heart.

PS-44:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we

are counted as

sheep for the slaughter.

PS-44:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not

off for ever.

PS-44:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our

affliction and

our oppression?

PS-44:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly

cleaveth unto the

earth.

PS-44:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

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