The Holy Bible: King James Version. 2000.
Former Deliverances and Present Troubles |
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. |
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We have heard with our ears, O God,
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our fathers have told us, |
what work thou didst in their days, |
in the times of old. |
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand,
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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,
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neither did their own arm save them: |
but thy right hand, and thine arm, |
and the light of thy countenance, |
because thou hadst a favor unto them. |
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Thou art my King, O God:
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command deliverances for Jacob. |
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Through thee will we push down our enemies:
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through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
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For I will not trust in my bow,
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neither shall my sword save me. |
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies,
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and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
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In God we boast all the day long,
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and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
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But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame;
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and goest not forth with our armies. |
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy:
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and they which hate us spoil for themselves. |
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat;
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and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
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Thou sellest thy people for nought,
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and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,
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a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen,
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a shaking of the head among the people. |
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My confusion is continually before me,
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and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
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for the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth;
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by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
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All this is come upon us;
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yet have we not forgotten thee, |
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
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Our heart is not turned back,
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neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
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though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
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and covered us with the shadow of death. |
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If we have forgotten the name of our God,
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or stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
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shall not God search this out?
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For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
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we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. Rom. 8.36 |
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
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Arise, cast us not off for ever. |
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
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and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
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our belly cleaveth unto the earth. |
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Arise for our help,
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and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake. |
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