43:0 ^[252] KJV Chapter [44] To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil:

43:1 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:

43:2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out:

43:3 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:

43:4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob:

43:5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us:

43:6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me:

43:7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us:

43:8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah:

43:9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies:

43:10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves:

43:11 Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen:

43:12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price:

43:13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us:

43:14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people:

43:15 My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me:

43:16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger:

43:17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant:

43:18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way:

43:19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death:

43:20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god:

43:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart:

43:22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter:

43:23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever:

43:24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression:

43:25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth:

43:26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake: