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Psalms 44
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1(45) For the end, for alternate [strains] by the sons of Core; for instruction, a Song concerning the beloved. My heart has uttered a good matter: I declare my works to the king: my tongue is the pen of a quick writer.
1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2You are more beautiful than the sons of men: grace has been shed forth on your lips: therefore God has blessed you for ever.
2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty;
3For 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.
4and bend [your bow], and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully.
4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) [they are] in the heart of the king's enemies.
5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.
6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your fellows.
7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8Myrrh, and stacte, and cassia [are exhaled] from your garments, [and] out of the ivory palaces,
8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9with which kings' daughters have gladdened you for your honor: the queen stood by on your right hand, clothed in vesture wrought with gold, [and] arrayed in various colors.
9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear; forget also your people, and your father's house.
10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11Because the king has desired your beauty; for he is your Lord.
11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.
12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13All her glory [is that] of the daughter of the king of Esebon, robed [as she is] in golden fringed garments,
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14in embroidered [clothing]: virgins shall be brought to the king after her: her fellows shall be brought to you.
14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15They shall be brought with gladness and exultation: they shall be led into the king's temple.
15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16Instead of your fathers children are born to you: you shall make them princes over all the earth.
16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17They shall make mention of your name from generation to generation: therefore shall the nations give thanks to you for ever, even for ever and ever.
17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.