Psalms 44
44
PSALM 44
Common Meter: 8,6,8,6
To the chief Musician, for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
1O God, we with our ears have heard,
our fathers have us told,
What works thou in their days hadst done,
ev'n in the days of old.
2Thy hand did drive the heathen out,
and plant them in their place;
Thou didst afflict the nations,
but them thou didst increase.
3For neither got their sword the land,
nor did their arm them save;
But thy right hand, arm, countenance;
for thou them favour gave.
4Thou art my King: for Jacob, Lord,
deliv'rances command.
5Through thee we shall push down our foes,
that do against us stand:
We, through thy name, shall tread down those
that ris'n against us have.
6For in my bow I shall not trust,
nor shall my sword me save.
7But from our foes thou hast us sav'd,
our haters put to shame.
8In God we all the day do boast,
and ever praise thy name.
9But now we are cast off by thee,
and us thou putt'st to shame;
And when our armies do go forth,
thou go'st not with the same.
10Thou mak'st us from the enemy,
faint-hearted, to turn back;
And they who hate us for themselves
our spoils away do take.
11Like sheep for meat thou gavest us;
'mong heathen cast we be.
12Thou didst for nought thy people sell;
their price enrich'd not thee.
13Thou mak'st us a reproach to be
unto our neighbours near;
Derision and a scorn to them
that round about us are.
14A by-word also thou dost us
among the heathen make;
The people, in contempt and spite,
at us their heads do shake.
15Before me my confusion
continually abides;
And of my bashful countenance
the shame me ever hides:
16For voice of him that doth reproach,
and speaketh blasphemy;
By reason of th' avenging foe,
and cruel enemy.
17All this is come on us, yet we
have not forgotten thee;
Nor falsely in thy covenant
behav'd ourselves have we.
18Back from thy way our heart not turn'd;
our steps no straying made;
19Though us thou brak'st in dragons' place,
and cover'dst with death's shade.
20If we God's name forgot, or stretch'd
to a strange god our hands,
21Shall not God search this out? for he
heart's secrets understands.
22Yea, for thy sake we're kill'd all day,
counted as slaughter-sheep.
23Rise, Lord, cast us not ever off;
awake, why dost thou sleep?
24O wherefore hidest thou thy face?
forgett'st our cause distress'd,
25And our oppression? For our soul
is to the dust down press'd:
Our belly also on the earth
fast cleaving, hold doth take.
26Rise for our help, and us redeem,
ev'n for thy mercies' sake.
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Psalms 44
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PSALM 44
1 To victory, learning to the sons of Korah. God, we heard with our ears; our fathers told to us. The work, which thou wroughtest in the days of them; and in the old days.
2Thine hand lost heathen men, and thou plantedest them; thou tormentedest peoples, and castedest them out.
3For the children of Israel wielded the land not by their sword; and the arm of them saved not them. But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the lightening of thy cheer; for thou were pleased in them.
4Thou art thyself, my king, and my God; that sendest healths to Jacob.
5By thee we shall winnow our enemies with [the] horn; and in thy name we shall despise them, that rise against us.
6For I shall not hope in my bow; and my sword shall not save me.
7For thou hast saved us from men tormenting us; and thou hast shamed men hating us.
8We shall be pleased in God all day; and in thy name we shall acknowledge to thee into the world.
9But now thou hast put us aback, and hast shamed us; and thou, Lord, shalt not go out in our virtues.
10Thou hast turned us away behind after our enemies; and they, that hated us, ravished diversely to themselves.
11Thou hast given us as sheep of meats; and among heathen men thou hast scattered us.
12Thou hast sold thy people without price; and multitude there was not in the exchangings of them.
13Thou hast set [or put] us as a shame to our neighbours; mocking and scorn to them that be in our compass.
14Thou hast set [or put] us into like-ness to heathen men; and wagging of the head among peoples.
15All day my shame is against me; and the shame of my face covered me.
16From the voice of [the] despiser, and evil speaker; from the face of the enemy, and [the] pursuer.
17All these things came on us, and we have not forgotten thee; and we did not wickedly in thy testament.
18And our heart went not away behind; and thou hast not bowed away our paths from thy way.
19For thou hast made us low in the place of torment; and the shadow of death covered us.
20If we forgat the name of our God; and if we held forth our hands to an alien God.
21Whether God shall not seek these things? for he knoweth the hid things of heart.
22For why we be slain all day for thee; we be deemed as sheep of slaying.
23Lord, rise up, why sleepest thou? rise up, and put not us away into the end.
24Why turnest thou away thy face? thou forgettest our poverty, and our tribulation.
25For our life is made low in dust; our womb is glued together in the earth.
26Lord, rise up thou, and help us; and again-buy us for thy name.
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