| 1: 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
plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword,
neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm,
and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto 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
will we 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 which
hate us spoil for themselves. |
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| 11: Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast
scattered us among the heathen. |
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| 12: Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy
wealth by their price. |
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| 13: Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a
derision to them that are round about us. |
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| 14: Thou makest us a byword 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 have we 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 sore broken us in the place of dragons, and
covered us with the shadow 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: Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of
the heart. |
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| 22: Yea, 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: Wherefore 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
unto the earth. |
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| 26: Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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