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\c 44
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\m
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\d A psalm written by one of the descendants of Korah for the choir director.
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\q1
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\v 1 God, we ourselves have heard
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\q2 what our parents and grandparents told us.
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\q1 They told us about the miracles
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\q2 that you performed long ago.
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\q1
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\v 2 They told us how you expelled the ungodly people
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\q2 and enabled us to live in their land.
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\q1 They told us that you punished those ungodly people
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\q2 and enabled your own people to possess the land.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 It was not by using their own swords that they conquered the people that lived in that land,
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\q2 and it was not by their own power that they were victorious;
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\q1 it was only by your power that they did those things;
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\q2 and they were sure that you were with them,
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\q2 showing that you were pleased with them.
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\q1
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\v 4 You are my king and my God;
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\q2 Make us, your people, able to defeat our enemies.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 It is by your power that we knock our enemies down and tramp on them.
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\q1
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\v 6 I do not trust that I can save myself
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\q2 by using my bow and arrows and my sword.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 7 No, it is you who have rescued us from our enemies;
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\q2 it is you who have caused those who hate us to become ashamed because they were defeated.
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\q1
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\v 8 We have always been proud about what God has done for us,
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\q2 and we will thank him forever.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 9 But now you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced;
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\q2 when our armies march out to fight a battle, you no longer go with them.
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\q1
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\v 10 You have caused us to run away from our enemies,
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\q2 with the result that they captured the things that belonged to us.
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\q1
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\v 11 You have allowed us to become like sheep that were ready to be slaughtered;
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\q2 you scattered us far away among other nations.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 It is as though you sold us, your people, to our enemies for a very small price,
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\q2 although you did not gain any profit from selling us!
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\q1
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\v 13 People who live in nations near us make fun of us;
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\q2 they laugh at us and deride us.
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\q1
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\v 14 They make jokes using the name of our country,
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\q2 they shake their heads to indicate that they despise us.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 15 All day I am disgraced;
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\q2 from seeing my face, people know that I am ashamed.
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\q
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\v 16 I hear what those who sneer at me and revile me say;
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\q2 I am ashamed in front of my enemies and those who want to harm me.
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\q1
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\v 17 All these things have happened to us
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\q2 even though we have not forgotten you,
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\q2 and we are not the ones who disobeyed the covenant you made with our ancestors.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 18 We have not stopped being loyal to you,
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\q2 and we have not stopped doing what you want us to do.
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\q1
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\v 19 But it is as though you have allowed us to be helpless among wild animals
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\q2 and you have abandoned us in a deep dark ravine.
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\q1
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\v 20 If we had forgotten to worship our God,
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\q2 or if we had spread out our hands to worship a foreign god,
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\q1
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\v 21 you certainly would have known that
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\q2 because you know even what we secretly think.
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\q1
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\v 22 But it is because we belong to you
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\q2 that our enemies are constantly killing us.
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\q1 They act toward us as though we were only sheep that they were going to slaughter.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 23 So Yahweh, arise! Why are you asleep?
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\q2 Get up! Do not reject us forever!
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\q
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\v 24 Why are you not looking at us?
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\q2 Why are you forgetting that we are suffering, that our enemies are oppressing us?
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 25 We are in complete panic;
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\q2 we cannot do anything; we are as good as dead.
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\q1
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\v 26 Do something! Come and help us!
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\q2 Rescue us because you love us as you promised to do.
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