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          DASV: Psalm 44    

For the music director, of the Sons of Korah, a Maskil

1 We have heard with our ears, O God,
     our ancestors have told us,
      what you did in their days,
     in the days of old.
2 You drove out the nations with your hand,
     but you settled them;
      you afflicted the peoples,
     but you set them free.
3 For they did not conquer the land by their own sword,
     nor did their own arm save them;
           but with your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face,
     because you favored them.

4 You are my King, O God;
     order salvation for Jacob.
5 Through you we push back our foes;
     through your name we trample down those rising against us.
6 For I do not trust in my bow,
     my sword cannot save me.
7 But you have saved us from our enemies,
     and have put to shame those who hate us.
8 In God we have boasted all day long;
     we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

9 But now you have rejected and disgraced us,
     and have not gone out leading our armies.
10 You make us retreat before the adversary;
     those who hate us plunder us.
11 You have made us like sheep to be eaten,
     and have scattered us among the nations.
12 You sell your people for nothing,
     and have gotten nothing from the sale of them.
13 You make us to be despised by our neighbors,
     a scoffing and mockery to those around us.
14 You make us a joke among the nations,
     a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 All day long my dishonor is before me,
     shame has covered my face,
16 from the voice of the one despising and ridiculing,
     because of the enemy and the one plotting revenge.

17 All this has come upon us,
     yet we have not forgotten you,
           nor have we violated your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back,
     nor have our steps digressed from your way.
19 You have broken us in the place of jackals,
     and covered us with darkness.

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God,
     or spread out our hands to a strange god,
21 would God not figure it out?
     He knows the secrets of the heart.
22 For your sake are we killed all day long;
     we are thought of as sheep for the slaughter.

23 Get up! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
     Wake up, do not reject us forever.
24 Why do you hide your face?
     Why do you forget our suffering and oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
     our body clings to the ground.
26 Rise up, come to our aid;
     redeem us because of your loyal love.

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