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Of the Korahites. A Maskil.</span></h4><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>We have heard with our ears, O God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">our ancestors have told us,</span></span><br /><span class="text">what deeds you performed in their days,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in the days of old:</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>you with your own hand drove out the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but them you planted;</span></span><br /><span class="text">you afflicted the peoples,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">but them you set free;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>for not by their own sword did they win the land,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor did their own arm give them victory;</span></span><br /><span class="text">but your right hand, and your arm,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the light of your countenance,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">for you delighted in them.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>You are my King and my God;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">you command<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16646a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> victories for Jacob.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Through you we push down our foes;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">through your name we tread down our assailants.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For not in my bow do I trust,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor can my sword save me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>But you have saved us from our foes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and have put to confusion those who hate us.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>In God we have boasted continually,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and we will give thanks to your name forever.<i><span class="selah">Selah</span></i></span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Yet you have rejected us and abased us,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and have not gone out with our armies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>You made us turn back from the foe,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and our enemies have gotten spoil.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>You have made us like sheep for slaughter,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and have scattered us among the nations.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>You have sold your people for a trifle,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">demanding no high price for them.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">the derision and scorn of those around us.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>You have made us a byword among the nations,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">a laughingstock<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-16656b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> among the peoples.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>All day long my disgrace is before me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and shame has covered my face</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>at the words of the taunters and revilers,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>All this has come upon us,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">yet we have not forgotten you,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or been false to your covenant.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Our heart has not turned back,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">nor have our steps departed from your way,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and covered us with deep darkness.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>If we had forgotten the name of our God,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">or spread out our hands to a strange god,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>would not God discover this?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">For he knows the secrets of the heart.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Because of you we are being killed all day long,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Awake, do not cast us off forever!</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Why do you hide your face?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>For we sink down to the dust;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">our bodies cling to the ground.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>Rise up, come to our help.</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 44:4">Psalm 44:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>You are my King, O God; command</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Psalm 44:14">Psalm 44:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>a shaking of the head</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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