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1 We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.
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(43-1) <Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.> (43-2) We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.
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(43-3) Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.
3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
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(43-4) For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword: neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
4 You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.
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(43-5) Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob.
5 Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.
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(43-6) Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
6 I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
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(43-7) For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
7 but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.
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(43-8) But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us.
8 In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.
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(43-9) In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever.
9 But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
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(43-10) But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou, O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
10 You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
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(43-11) Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves.
11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
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(43-12) Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations.
12 You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
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(43-13) Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them.
13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
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(43-14) Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us.
14 You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
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(43-15) Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people.
15 I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame
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(43-16) All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me,
16 at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
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(43-17) At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.
17 All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
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(43-18) All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
18 Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
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(43-19) And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way.
19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.
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(43-20) For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
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(43-21) If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:
21 would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
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(43-22) Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
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(43-22) Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.
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(43-23) Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end.
24 Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
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(43-24) Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble?
25 We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
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(43-25) For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
26 Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.
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(43-26) Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name’s sake.
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