<TITLE>Psalms 044</TITLE><BR>Psalms 44 <BR>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.<BR>2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.<BR>3 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.<BR>4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.<BR>5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.<BR>6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.<BR>7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.<BR>8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.<BR>9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.<BR>10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.<BR>11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.<BR>12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.<BR>13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.<BR>14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.<BR>15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,<BR>16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.<BR>17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.<BR>18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;<BR>19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.<BR>20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;<BR>21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.<BR>22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.<BR>23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.<BR>24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?<BR>25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.<BR>26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.<BR><BR><BR>