PSALM Chapter 44 (GNB)
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With our own ears we have heard it, O God--- our ancestors have told us about
it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago: |
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how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their
land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper. |
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Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it
by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance
of your presence, which showed that you loved them. |
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You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people, |
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and by your power we defeat our enemies. |
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I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me; |
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but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us. |
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We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever. |
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But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated;
you no longer march out with our armies. |
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You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.
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You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign
countries. |
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You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value. |
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Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us. |
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You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in
scorn. |
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I am always in disgrace; I am covered with shame |
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from hearing the sneers and insults of my enemies and those who hate me. |
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All this has happened to us, even though we have not forgotten you or broken
the covenant you made with us. |
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We have not been disloyal to you; we have not disobeyed your commands. |
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Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest
darkness. |
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If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god, |
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you would surely have discovered it, because you know our secret thoughts. |
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But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time, that we are
treated like sheep to be slaughtered. |
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Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself !
Don't reject us forever! |
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Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble! |
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We fall crushed to the ground; we lie defeated in the dust. |
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Come to our aid! Because of your constant love save us! |
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