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

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John Wesley's Notes
Explanation posted by John Wesley on 2007-01-01 00:00:00
The church commemorates past mercies, ver. 1-8. Complains of present troubles, ver. 9-16. Professes her integrity, ver. 17-22. Prays for succor, ver. 23-26. To the chief musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.
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