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44:1  With our own ears we have heard it, O God— our ancestors have told us about it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago:
44:2  how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.
44:3  Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.
44:4  You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people,
44:5  and by your power we defeat our enemies.
44:6  I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;
44:7  but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us.
44:8  We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever.
44:9  But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated; you no longer march out with our armies.
44:10  You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.
44:11  You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.
44:12  You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.
44:13  Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.
44:14  You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
44:15  I am always in disgrace; I am covered with shame
44:16  from hearing the sneers and insults of my enemies and those who hate me.
44:17  All this has happened to us, even though we have not forgotten you or broken the covenant you made with us.
44:18  We have not been disloyal to you; we have not disobeyed your commands.
44:19  Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.
44:20  If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,
44:21  you would surely have discovered it, because you know our secret thoughts.
44:22  But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time, that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.
44:23  Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself Don't reject us forever!
44:24  Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!
44:25  We fall crushed to the ground; we lie defeated in the dust.
44:26  Come to our aid! Because of your constant love save us!