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Psalms 43

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

43:1

For the end, a Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Core.

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43:2

O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.

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43:3

Thine hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict the nations, and cast them out.

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43:4

For they inherited not the land by their [own] sword, and their [own] arm did not deliver them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou wert well pleased in them.

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43:5

Thou art indeed my King and my God, who commandest deliverances for Jacob.

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43:6

In thee will we push down our enemies, and in thy name will we bring to nought them that rise up against us.

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43:7

For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.

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43:8

For thou hast saved us from them that afflicted us, and hast put to shame them that hated us.

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43:9

In God will we make our boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.

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43:10

But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.

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43:11

Thou hast turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

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43:12

Thou madest us as sheep for meat; and thou scatteredst us among the nations.

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43:13

Thou hast sold thy people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.

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43:14

Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

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43:15

Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.

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43:16

All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,

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43:17

because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.

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43:18

All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt unrighteously in thy covenant.

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43:19

And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.

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43:20

For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.

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43:21

If 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?

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43:22

for he knows the secrets of the heart.

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43:23

For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.

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43:24

Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast [us] off for ever.

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43:25

Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, [and] forgettest our poverty and our affliction?

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43:26

For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.

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43:27

Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for thy name's sake.

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