1+ 2\44:1\To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. 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. 3\44:2\How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. 4\44:3\For they obtained not the land in possession 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 hadst a favor to them. 5\44:4\Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. 6\44:5\Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us. 7\44:6\For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. 8\44:7\But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. 9\44:8\In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. 10\44:9\But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. 11\44:10\Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us plunder for themselves. 12\44:11\Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen. 13\44:12\Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. 14\44:13\Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us. 15\44:14\Thou makest us a by-word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. 16\44:15\My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, 17\44:16\For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. 18\44:17\All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. 19\44:18\Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; 20\44:19\Though thou hast severely broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shades of death. 21\44:20\If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; 22\44:21\Will not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. 23\44:22\Yes, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 24\44:23\Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. 25\44:24\Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? 26\44:25\For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth. 27\44:26\Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.