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[How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and
plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast
them out.
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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.
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Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy
name will we tread them under 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 our enemies, and hast put them
to shame that hated us.
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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 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 which
hate us spoil for themselves.
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Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; 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 neighbours, 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 is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps
declined from thy way;
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons,
and covered us with the shadow of death.
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out
our hands to a strange god;
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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets
of the heart.
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are
counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off
for ever.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our
affliction and our oppression?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth
unto the earth.
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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