Psalm 44 Bishops' Bible 1568

From Textus Receptus

Psa 44:1 <To the chiefe musition, a wise instruction of the sonnes of Corach.> We haue hearde with our eares O Lorde: our fathers haue tolde vs what workes thou hast done in their daies in the olde tyme. Psa 44:2 Howe thou hast driuen out the heathen with thy hande and planted them in: howe thou hast destroyed the nations & placed them. Psa 44:3 For they gat not the lande in possession through their owne sworde: neither was it their owne arme that saued them. (44:4) But thy ryght hande, and thine arme, & the lyght of thy countenaunce: because thou hadst a fauour vnto them. Psa 44:4 (44:5) Thou art my kyng O Lorde: commaunde that Iacob be saued. Psa 44:5 (44:6) Through thee we wyll ouerthrowe our enemies: and in thy name we wyll treade them vnder that ryse vp agaynst vs. Psa 44:6 (44:7) For I wyll not trust in my bowe: and it is not my sworde that can saue me. Psa 44:7 (44:8) But it is thou that sauest vs from our enemies: and thou puttest them to confusion that hate vs. Psa 44:8 (44:9) We make our boast of God all the day long: and we wyll confesse thy name for euer. Selah. Psa 44:9 (44:10) But nowe thou art farre of, and thou puttest vs to confusion: neither goest thou foorth with our armies. Psa 44:10 (44:11) Thou makest vs to turne away backwarde from the enemie: so that they which hate vs, do make vs a spoyle vnto them. Psa 44:11 (44:12) Thou hast delyuered vs as sheepe to be eaten: and thou hast scattered vs among the heathen. Psa 44:12 (44:13) Thou hast solde thy people for naught: and thou hast taken no money for them. Psa 44:13 (44:14) Thou hast made vs a rebuke to our neighbours: to be laughed to scorne and had in derision of them that are rounde about vs. Psa 44:14 (44:15) Thou hast made vs [to be] a fable among the heathen: [and to be such] that the people shake their head at vs. Psa 44:15 (44:16a) My confusion is dayly before me, and the shame of my face couereth me: Psa 44:16 (44:16b) for [to heare] the voyce of the slaunderer & blasphemer, and for to see the enemie and the auenger. Psa 44:17 [And though] all this be come vpon vs: [yet] we do not forget thee, nor shewe our selues to be false in thy couenaunt. Psa 44:18 (44:18a) Our heart is not turned backe, neither our steppes be declined out of thy pathes: Psa 44:19 (44:18b) no not when thou hast smitten vs in the place of dragons, and couered vs with the shadowe of death. Psa 44:20 (44:19a) If we had forgotten the name of our Lorde, and holden vp our handes to any straunge god: Psa 44:21 (44:19b) woulde not God searche it out? for he knoweth the very secretes of the heart. Psa 44:22 (44:20) For thy sake also are we kylled all the day long: and are counted as sheepe appoynted to be slayne. Psa 44:23 (44:21a) Stirre vp O Lorde, why slepest thou? awake & be not absent from vs for euer: Psa 44:24 (44:21b) wherfore hydest thou thy face, and forgettest our miserie and tribulation? Psa 44:25 (44:22) For our soule is brought lowe vnto the dust: our belly cleaueth vnto the grounde. Psa 44:26 (44:23) Aryse vp thou our ayde, and redeeme vs: for thy louyng kindnesse sake.