{42:9} I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? {42:10} [As] with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where [is] thy God? {42:11} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 43 {43:1} Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. {43:2} For thou [art] the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? {43:3} O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles. {43:4} Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding j

{43:5} Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, [who is] the health of my countenance, and my God. Psalm 44 To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. {44:1} 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. {44:2} [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. {44:3} 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. {44:4} Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. {44:5} Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. {44:6} For I will not trust in my bow, neither s

{44:7} But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to Downloaded from www.holybooks.com Psalms Page 332 shame that hated us. {44:8} In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. {44:9} But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. {44:10} Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. {44:11} Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. {44:12} Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price. {44:13} Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. {44:14} Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. {44:15} My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, {44:16} For the voice of him that reproach

{44:17} All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. {44:18} Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; {44:19} Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. {44:20} If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; {44:21} Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. {44:22} Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. {44:23} Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever. {44:24} Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression? {44:25} For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. {44:26} Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies sake. Psalm 45 To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim,