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⁹By day the Lord will command His lovingkindness,

And in the night His song shall be with me,

Even a prayer unto the God of my life.

¹⁰I will say unto God my Rock: 'Why hast Thou forgotten me?

Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?'

¹¹As with a crushing in my bones, mine adversaries taunt me;

While they say unto me all the day: 'Where is Thy God?'

¹²Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why moanest thou within me?

Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him,

The salvation of my countenance, and my God.

43 Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;

O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

²For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off?

Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?

³O send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me;

Let them bring me unto Thy holy mountain, and to Thy dwelling-places;

⁴Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God, my exceeding joy;

And praise Thee upon the harp, O God, my God.

⁵Why art thou cast down, O my soul?

And why moanest thou within me?

Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him,

The salvation of my countenance, and my God.

44 For the Leader; [a Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.

²O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us;

A work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.

³Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in;

Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.

⁴For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession,

Neither did their own arm save them;

But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance,

Because Thou wast favourable unto them.

 

⁵Thou art my King, O God;

Command the salvation of Jacob.

⁶Through Thee do we push down our adversaries;

Through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.

⁷For I trust not in my bow,

Neither can my sword save me.

⁸But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries,

And hast put them to shame that hate us.

⁹In God have we gloried all the day,

And we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah

 

¹⁰Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion;

And goest not forth with our hosts.

¹¹Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;

And they that hate us spoil at their will.

¹²Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten;

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