{
 "translation": "KJV",
 "book": "Psalms",
 "chapter": 44,
 "verses": [
  {
   "v": 1,
   "t": "[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."
  },
  {
   "v": 2,
   "t": "How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out."
  },
  {
   "v": 3,
   "t": "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."
  },
  {
   "v": 4,
   "t": "Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob."
  },
  {
   "v": 5,
   "t": "Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us."
  },
  {
   "v": 6,
   "t": "For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me."
  },
  {
   "v": 7,
   "t": "But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us."
  },
  {
   "v": 8,
   "t": "In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah."
  },
  {
   "v": 9,
   "t": "But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies."
  },
  {
   "v": 10,
   "t": "Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves."
  },
  {
   "v": 11,
   "t": "Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen."
  },
  {
   "v": 12,
   "t": "Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price."
  },
  {
   "v": 13,
   "t": "Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us."
  },
  {
   "v": 14,
   "t": "Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people."
  },
  {
   "v": 15,
   "t": "My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,"
  },
  {
   "v": 16,
   "t": "For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger."
  },
  {
   "v": 17,
   "t": "All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant."
  },
  {
   "v": 18,
   "t": "Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;"
  },
  {
   "v": 19,
   "t": "Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death."
  },
  {
   "v": 20,
   "t": "If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;"
  },
  {
   "v": 21,
   "t": "Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart."
  },
  {
   "v": 22,
   "t": "Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter."
  },
  {
   "v": 23,
   "t": "Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever."
  },
  {
   "v": 24,
   "t": "Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?"
  },
  {
   "v": 25,
   "t": "For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth."
  },
  {
   "v": 26,
   "t": "Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake."
  }
 ],
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