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Psalm_044 · Pastor John Piper's answers

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  Speaker 1: Psalm forty four for the Chief Musician by the sons
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  Speaker 1: of Corah, a contemplative psalm. We have heard with our ears. God,
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  Speaker 1: our fathers have told us what work you did in
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  Speaker 1: their days. In the days of old. You drove out
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  Speaker 1: the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You
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  Speaker 1: afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad. For they
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  Speaker 1: didn't get the land in possession by their own sword,
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  Speaker 1: neither did their own arms. Save them. But your right
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  Speaker 1: hand and your arm, and the light of your face,
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  Speaker 1: because you were favorable to them. You are my king, God,
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  Speaker 1: command victories for Jacob. Through you, we will push down
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  Speaker 1: our adversaries. Through your name, we will tread them under
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  Speaker 1: who rise up against us. For I will not trust
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  Speaker 1: in my bau, neither shall my sword save me. But
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  Speaker 1: you have saved us from our adversaries, and have put
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  Speaker 1: to shame those who hate us. In God, we have
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  Speaker 1: made our boast all day long. We will give thanks
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  Speaker 1: to your name forever. But now you rejected us and
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  Speaker 1: brought us to dishonor. And don't go out with our armies.
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  Speaker 1: You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who
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  Speaker 1: hate us take spoil for themselves. You have made us
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  Speaker 1: like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations.
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  Speaker 1: You sell your people for nothing, and have gained nothing
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  Speaker 1: from their sale. You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
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  Speaker 1: a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.
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  Speaker 1: You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking
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  Speaker 1: of the head among the peoples. All day long, my
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  Speaker 1: dishonor is before me, and shame covers my face at
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  Speaker 1: the taunt of one who reproaches and reviles. Because of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy and the avenger, all this has come on us.
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  Speaker 1: Yet we have not forgotten you. Neither have we been
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  Speaker 1: false to your covenant. Our heart has not turned back,
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  Speaker 1: neither have our steps declined from your way. That you
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  Speaker 1: have crushed us in the haunt of jackals and covered
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  Speaker 1: us with the shop shadow of death. If we have
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  Speaker 1: forgotten the name of our God, are spread forth our
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  Speaker 1: hands to a strange god. Won't God search this out,
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  Speaker 1: for he knows the secrets of the heart. Yes, for
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  Speaker 1: your sake, we are killed all day long. We are
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  Speaker 1: regarded as sheep for the slaughter. Wake up? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you sleep? Lord? Arise? Don't reject us forever? Why do
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  Speaker 1: you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression.
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  Speaker 1: For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our
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  Speaker 1: body cleaves to the earth. Rise up to help us,
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  Speaker 1: redeem us for your loving kindness sake