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- 0:04Speaker 1: Psalm 44 FOR THE CHEAP MUSICIAN BY THE SONS OF
- 0:07Speaker 1: KORA A CONTEMPLATIVE PSALM We have heard with our ears, God,
- 0:13Speaker 1: our fathers have told us, what work you did in
- 0:15Speaker 1: their days in the days of old. YOU DROVE OUT
- 0:18Speaker 1: THE NATIONS WITH YOUR HAND, BUT YOU PLANTED THEM. YOU
- 0:22Speaker 1: AFFLICTED THE PEOPLES, BUT YOU SPREAD THEM ABROAD. FOR THEY
- 0:26Speaker 1: DIDN'T GET THE LAND IN POSSESSION BY THEIR OWN SWORD,
- 0:29Speaker 1: NEITHER DID THEIR OWN ARM SAVE THEM. BUT YOUR RIGHT
- 0:32Speaker 1: HAND AND YOUR ARM AND THE LIGHT OF YOUR FACE,
- 0:35Speaker 1: BECAUSE YOU WERE FAVORABLE TO THEM. YOU ARE MY KING, GOD,
- 0:39Speaker 1: COMMEND VICTORIES FOR JACOB. through you we will push down
- 0:43Speaker 1: our adversaries through your name we will tread them under
- 0:47Speaker 1: who rise up against us for i will not trust
- 0:50Speaker 1: in my bow neither shall my sword save me but
- 0:53Speaker 1: you have saved us from our adversaries and have put
- 0:56Speaker 1: to shame those who hate us in god we have
- 0:59Speaker 1: made our boast all day long we will give thanks
- 1:02Speaker 1: to your name forever but now you rejected us and
- 1:06Speaker 1: brought us to dishonor and don't go out with our
- 1:09Speaker 1: armies you make us turn back from the adversary those
- 1:12Speaker 1: who hate us take spoil for themselves You have made
- 1:16Speaker 1: us like sheep for food, and have scattered us among
- 1:19Speaker 1: the nations. You sell your people for nothing, and have
- 1:22Speaker 1: gained nothing from their sale. You make us a reproach
- 1:25Speaker 1: to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those
- 1:28Speaker 1: who are around us. You make us a byword among
- 1:31Speaker 1: the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
- 1:35Speaker 1: All day long my dishonor is before me, and shame
- 1:38Speaker 1: covers my face, at the taunt of one who reproaches
- 1:41Speaker 1: and reviles because of the enemy and the avenger. ALL
- 1:45Speaker 1: THIS HAS COME ON US, YET WE HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN YOU,
- 1:49Speaker 1: NEITHER HAVE WE BEEN FALSE TO YOUR COVENANT. OUR HEART
- 1:52Speaker 1: HAS NOT TURNED BACK, NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS DECLINED FROM
- 1:55Speaker 1: YOUR WAY, THAT YOU HAVE CRUSHED US IN THE HAUNT
- 1:58Speaker 1: OF JACKALS, AND COVERED US WITH THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
- 2:01Speaker 1: IF WE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE NAME OF OUR GOD, OR
- 2:04Speaker 1: SPREAD FORTH OUR HANDS TO A STRANGE GOD, WON'T GOD
- 2:07Speaker 1: SEARCH THIS OUT? FOR HE KNOWS THE SECRETS OF THE HEART. YES,
- 2:11Speaker 1: FOR YOUR SAKE WE ARE KILLED ALL DAY LONG. WE
- 2:14Speaker 1: ARE REGARDED AS SHEEP FOR THE SLAUGHTER. WAKE UP! WHY
- 2:18Speaker 1: DO YOU SLEEP, LORD? ARISE! DON'T REJECT US FOREVER! WHY
- 2:22Speaker 1: DO YOU HIDE YOUR FACE AND FORGET OUR AFFLICTION AND
- 2:24Speaker 1: OUR OPPRESSION? FOR OUR SOUL IS BOWED DOWN TO THE DUST.
- 2:28Speaker 1: OUR BODY CLEAVES TO THE EARTH. RISE UP TO HELP US!
- 2:32Speaker 1: REDEEM US FOR YOUR LOVINGKINDNESS' SAKE!