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| [1]To the chief Musician for 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 times of old. |
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| [2]How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
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| [3]For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor to them. |
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| [4]Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
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| [5]Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us. |
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| [6]For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
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| [7]But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
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| [8]In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
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| [9]But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
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| [10]Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves. |
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| [11]Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
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| [12]Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
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| [13]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. |
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| [14]Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
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| [15]My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
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| [16]For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
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| [17]All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
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| [18]Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
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| [19]Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death. |
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| [20]If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
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| [21]Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
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| [22]Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
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| [23]Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. |
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| [24]Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
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| [25]For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth. |
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| [26]Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
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