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Psalms 43
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1(44) For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which you wrought in their days, in the days of old.
1For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us what work you did in their days, in the days of old.
2Your hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and you did plant them: you did afflict the nations, and cast them out.
2You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.
3For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you were well pleased in them.
3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you were favorable to them.
4You are indeed my King and my God, who command deliverances for Jacob.
4God, you are my King. Command victories for Jacob!
5In you will we push down our enemies, and in your name will we bring to nothing them that rise up against us.
5Through you, we will push down our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread down those who rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.
6For I will not trust in my bow, neither will my sword save me.
7For you have saved us from them that afflicted us, and have put to shame them that hated us.
7But you have saved us from our adversaries, and have shamed those who hate us.
8In God will we make our boast all the day, and to your name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.
8In God we have made our boast all day long. We will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.
9But now you have cast off, and put us to shame; and you will not go forth with our hosts.
9But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, and don’t go out with our armies.
10You have turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.
10You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.
11You made us as sheep for meat; and you scattered us among the nations.
11You have made us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
12You have sold your people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.
12You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing from their sale.
13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.
13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
14You have made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.
14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
15All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face,
16because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.
16at the taunt of one who reproaches and verbally abuses, because of the enemy and the avenger.
17All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten you, neither have we dealt unrighteously in your covenant.
17All this has come on us, yet we haven’t forgotten you. We haven’t been false to your covenant.
18And our heart has not gone back; but you have turned aside our paths from your way.
18Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps strayed from your path,
19For you have laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
19though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god,
21for he knows the secrets of the heart.
21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22For, for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.
22Yes, for your sake we are killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake, therefore sleep you , O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.
23Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don’t reject us forever.
24Therefore turn you your face away, [and] forget our poverty and our affliction?
24Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the earth.
26Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for your name's sake.
26Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your loving kindness’ sake.