all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me. 8 Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer to the God of my life. 9 I will say to God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 10 As with a sword in my bones, my enemies reproach me; while they say daily to me, Where is thy God? [1] 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.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man. [2] [3]
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?
3 O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me to thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.
4 Then will I go to the altar of God, to God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God. [4]
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.
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. [5]
2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and didst plant them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For they obtained not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour to them.
4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name we will tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for food; and hast scattered us among the heathen. [6]
12 Thou sellest thy people for nothing, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. [7]
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are around us.
14 Thou makest us a by word among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; [8]
19 Though thou hast greatly broke us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 Shall not God search out this? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Why hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake. [9]
PSALM 45.
To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.
My heart is overflowing with a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made concerning the king: my tongue is the pen of a skilful writer. [10] [11]
2 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
3 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things. [12]
5 Thy arrows are sharp in the heart
- ↑ sword: or, killing
- ↑ ungodly: or, unmerciful
- ↑ the deceitful...: Heb. a man of deceit and iniquity
- ↑ my exceeding...: Heb. the gladness of my joy
- ↑ Maschil: or, of instruction
- ↑ like...: Heb. as sheep of meat
- ↑ for...: Heb. without riches
- ↑ steps: or, goings
- ↑ for our...: Heb. a help for us
- ↑ Maschil: or, of instruction
- ↑ is inditing: Heb. boileth, or, bubbleth up
- ↑ ride...: Heb. prosper thou, ride thou
