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44:1  For the Chief Musician; a Psalm of 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 days of old.
44:2  Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand, and plantedst them in; thou didst afflict the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.
44:3  For they gat 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.
44:4  Thou art my King, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.
44:5  Through thee will we push down our adversaries: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
44:6  For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
44:7  But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
44:8  In God have we made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah
44:9  But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonour; and goest not forth with our hosts.
44:10  Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
44:11  Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the nations.
44:12  Thou sellest thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
44:13  Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
44:14  Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
44:15  All the day long is my dishonour before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
44:16  For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.
44:17  All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
44:18  Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
44:19  That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
44:20  If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
44:21  Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
44:22  Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
44:23  Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
44:24  Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
44:25  For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
44:26  Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.