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44:1 [For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah]. O God, we have heard with our ears, Our fathers have told us, The work that Thou didst in their days, In the days of old. 44:2 Thou with Thine own hand didst drive out the nations; Then Thou didst plant them; Thou didst afflict the peoples, Then Thou didst spread them abroad. 44:3 For by their own sword they did not possess the land; And their own arm did not save them; But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy presence, For Thou didst favor them. 44:4 Thou art my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob. 44:5 Through Thee we will push back our adversaries; Through Thy name we will trample down those who rise up against us. 44:6 For I will not trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me. 44:7 But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And Thou hast put to shame those who hate us. 44:8 In God we have boasted all day long, And we will give thanks to Thy name forever. Selah. 44:9 Yet Thou hast rejected [us] and brought us to dishonor, And dost not go out with our armies. 44:10 Thou dost cause us to turn back from the adversary; And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. 44:11 Thou dost give us as sheep to be eaten, And hast scattered us among the nations. 44:12 Thou dost sell Thy people cheaply, And hast not profited by their sale. 44:13 Thou dost make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those around us. 44:14 Thou dost make us a byword among the nations, A laughingstock among the peoples. 44:15 All day long my dishonor is before me, And my humiliation has overwhelmed me, 44:16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger. 44:17 All this has come upon us, but we have not forgotten Thee, And we have not dealt falsely with Thy covenant. 44:18 Our heart has not turned back, And our steps have not deviated from Thy way, 44:19 Yet Thou hast crushed us in a place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. 44:20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or extended our hands to a strange god; 44:21 Would not God find this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. 44:22 But for Thy sake we are killed all day long; We are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. 44:23 Arouse Thyself, why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, do not reject us forever. 44:24 Why dost Thou hide Thy face, And forget our affliction and our oppression? 44:25 For our soul has sunk down into the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth. 44:26 Rise up, be our help, And redeem us for the sake of Thy lovingkindness. 44:27