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44:1  We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us [what] work You did in their days, in the days of old.
44:2  You drove out the nations with Your hand and it was Your power that gave [Israel] a home by rooting out the [heathen] peoples, but [Israel] You spread out.
44:3  For they got not the land [of Canaan] 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 countenance [did it], because You were favorable toward and did delight in them.
44:4  You are my King, O God; command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).
44:5  Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us.
44:6  For I will not trust in and lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7  But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us.
44:8  In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
44:9  But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies.
44:10  You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.
44:11  You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations.
44:12  You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price.
44:13  You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
44:14  You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people.
44:15  My dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face
44:16  At the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
44:17  All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].
44:18  Our hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path,
44:19  Though You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death.
44:20  If we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
44:21  Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
44:22  No, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23  Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever!
44:24  Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?
44:25  For our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground.
44:26  Rise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy’s sake and because of Your steadfast love!