[1] We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme[2]Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hande and planted them in: howe thou hast destroyed the nations & placed them[3]For they gat not the lande in possession through their owne sworde: neither was it their owne arme that saued them. (44:4) But thy ryght hande, and thine arme, & the lyght of thy countenaunce: because thou hadst a fauour vnto them[4](44:5) Thou art my kyng O Lorde: commaunde that Iacob be saued[5](44:6) Through thee we wyll ouerthrowe our enemies: and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that ryse vp agaynst vs[6](44:7) For I wyll not trust in my bowe: and it is not my sworde that can saue me[7](44:8) But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemies: and thou puttest them to confusion that hate vs[8](44:9) We make our boast of God all the day long: and we wyll confesse thy name for euer. Selah[9](44:10) But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies[10](44:11) Thou makest vs to turne away backwarde from the enemie: so that they which hate vs, do make vs a spoyle vnto them[11](44:12) Thou hast delyuered vs as sheepe to be eaten: and thou hast scattered vs among the heathen[12](44:13) Thou hast solde thy people for naught: and thou hast taken no money for them[13](44:14) Thou hast made vs a rebuke to our neighbours: to be laughed to scorne and had in derision of them that are rounde about vs[14](44:15) Thou hast made vs [to be] a fable among the heathen: [and to be such] that the people shake their head at vs[15](44:16a) My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face couereth me[16](44:16b) for [to heare] the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, and for to see the enemie and the auenger[17][And though] all this be come vpon vs: [yet] we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt[18](44:18a) Our heart is not turned backe, neither our steppes be declined out of thy pathes[19](44:18b) no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death[20](44:19a) If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god[21](44:19b) woulde not God searche it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the heart[22](44:20) For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long: and are counted as sheepe appoynted to be slayne[23](44:21a) Stirre vp O Lorde, why slepest thou? awake & be not absent from vs for euer[24](44:21b) wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation[25](44:22) For our soule is brought lowe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the grounde[26](44:23) Aryse vp thou our ayde, and redeeme vs: for thy louyng kindnesse sake