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Psalms 44

For the choir director. A  aMaskil of the sons of Korah.

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O God, we have heard with our ears, Our  afathers have told us The  bwork that You did in their days, In the  cdays of old.

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You with Your own hand  adrove out the nations; Then You  bplanted them; You  cafflicted the peoples, Then You  dspread them abroad.

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For by their own sword they  adid not possess the land, And their own arm did not save them, But Your right hand and Your  barm and the  clight of Your presence, For You  dfavored them.

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You are  amy King, O God;  bCommand  1victories for Jacob.

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Through You we will  apush back our adversaries; Through Your name we will  btrample down those who rise up against us.

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For I will  anot trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.

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But You  ahave saved us from our adversaries, And You have  bput to shame those who hate us.

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In God we have  aboasted all day long, And we will  bgive thanks to Your name forever.  1Selah.

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Yet You  ahave rejected us and brought us to  bdishonor, And  cdo not go out with our armies.

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You cause us to  aturn back from the adversary; And those who hate us  bhave taken spoil for themselves.

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You give us as  asheep  1to be eaten And have  bscattered us among the nations.

12

You  asell Your people  1cheaply, And have not  2profited by their sale.

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You make us a  areproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a  bderision to those around us.

14

You make us  aa byword among the nations, A  1 blaughingstock among the peoples.

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All day long my dishonor is before me And  1my  ahumiliation has overwhelmed me,

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Because of the voice of him who  areproaches and reviles, Because of the presence of the  benemy and the avenger.

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All this has come upon us, but we have  anot forgotten You, And we have not  bdealt falsely with Your covenant.

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Our heart has not  aturned back, And our steps  bhave not deviated from Your way,

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Yet You have  acrushed us in a place of  bjackals And covered us with  cthe shadow of death.

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If we had  aforgotten the name of our God Or extended our  1hands to  ba strange god,

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Would not God  afind this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

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But  afor Your sake we are killed all day long; We are considered as  bsheep to be slaughtered.

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 aArouse Yourself, why  bdo You sleep, O Lord? Awake,  cdo not reject us forever.

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Why do You  ahide Your face And  bforget our affliction and our oppression?

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For our  asoul has sunk down into the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.

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 aRise up, be our help, And  bredeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.



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