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The Book of Psalms
Psalm 43
Deus auribus nostris.
The church commemorates former favours, and present afflictions; under which she prays for succour.
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Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding. |
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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. |
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Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou didst afflict the people and cast them out. |
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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. |
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Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob. |
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Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us. |
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For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me. |
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But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us. |
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In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever. |
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But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou , O God, wilt not go out with our armies. |
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Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves. |
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Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations. |
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Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. |
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Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us. |
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Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people. |
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All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me, |
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At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor. |
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All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant. |
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And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way. |
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For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us. |
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god: |
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Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
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Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. |
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Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble? |
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For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth. |
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Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake. |
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