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O God, with our ears we heard; our fathers recounted to us the work thou didst in their days, in days of old.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Thou didst with thy hand drive out the nations and thou wilt plant them; thou wilt pluck in pieces the people, and thou wilt send them forth.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For by their sword they possessed not the land, and their arm saved them not: for thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy face, for thou didst delight in them.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Thou art he my King, O God: command the salvation of Jacob.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>In thee we will thrust our enemies: in thy name we will tread down those rising up against us.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword will not serve me.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>For thou savedst us from our enemies, and those hating us thou didst make ashamed.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>In God we praised all the day, and thy name we will celebrate forever. Silence.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But thou didst reject, and thou wilt shame us, and not go forth with our armies.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Thou wilt turn us back from the enemy: and those hating us spoiled for themselves.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thou wilt give us as sheep for food, and thou didst scatter us among the nations.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Thou wilt sell thy people without riches, and thou didst not increase by their price.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Thou wilt set us a reproach to our neighbors, and a derision and scorn to them round about us.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thou wilt set us a parable among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>All the day my shame before me, and the confusion of my face covered me,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>From the voice of him reproaching and reviling, from the face of the enemy and avenger.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All this came to us, and we did not forget thee, and we lied not in thy covenant.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Our heart drew not back, and thou wilt not incline our going from thy path;<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For thou didst crush us in the place of jackals, and thou wilt cover over us with the shadow of death.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If we forgat the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange god:<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Will not God search this out? for he knew the secrets of the heart.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>For, for thee we were killed all the day; we were reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Awake, why wilt thou sleep, O Jehovah? awake, thou wilt not reject forever.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Why wilt thou hide thy face? wilt thou forget our affliction and our oppression?<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For our soul was bowed down to the dust: our belly was glued to the earth.<p> <A name=""></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/psalms/44-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Arise a help for us, and redeem us for sake of thy mercy.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; Translated Literally From The Original Tongues by Julia E. 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