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In God we boast all the day long, and praise Thy name for ever. Selah
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But Thou hast cast us off and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies.
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy, and they that hate us despoil us for themselves.
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Thou hast given us up like sheep appointed for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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Thou sellest Thy people for nought, and dost not increase Thy wealth by their price.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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for the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth by reason of the enemy and avenger.
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All this has come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
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Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps turned from Thy way,