59 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
59 lines
2.3 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 44
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1 We have heard with our ears, O God,
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Our fathers have told us,
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The deeds You did in their days,
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In days of old:
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2 You drove out the nations with Your hand,
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But them You planted;
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You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
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3 For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
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Nor did their own arm save them;
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But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
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Because You favored them.
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4 You are my King, O God;
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Command victories for Jacob.
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5 Through You we will push down our enemies;
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Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
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6 For I will not trust in my bow,
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Nor shall my sword save me.
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7 But You have saved us from our enemies,
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And have put to shame those who hated us.
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8 In God we boast all day long,
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And praise Your name forever. Selah
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9 But You have cast us off and put us to shame,
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And You do not go out with our armies.
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10 You make us turn back from the enemy,
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And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
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11 You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
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And have scattered us among the nations.
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12 You sell Your people for next to nothing,
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And are not enriched by selling them.
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13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
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A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
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14 You make us a byword among the nations,
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A shaking of the head among the peoples.
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15 My dishonor is continually before me,
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And the shame of my face has covered me,
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16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
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Because of the enemy and the avenger.
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17 All this has come upon us;
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But we have not forgotten You,
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Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
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18 Our heart has not turned back,
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Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
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19 But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
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And covered us with the shadow of death.
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20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
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Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
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21 Would not God search this out?
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For He knows the secrets of the heart.
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22 Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
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We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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23 Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
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Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
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24 Why do You hide Your face,
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And forget our affliction and our oppression?
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25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
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Our body clings to the ground.
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26 Arise for our help,
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And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake. |