Chapter 43

The Prophet describeth the first calling, and difficult state of the Jewish nation, ℣.6 their prosperity at other times. ℣.10 Again their afflictions in captivity, and persecutions.

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   Unto the end, for the sons of Core to understanding. with our ears: our fathers have declared to

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   O God we have heard us. The work that thou hast wrought in their days: & in the days of old.

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   Thy hand destroyed the nations, and thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict the peoples, and expel them.

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   For not by their own sword did they possess the land, and their own arm did not save them: But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the illumination of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased in them.

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   Thou art the same my King and my God: which commandest the salvations of Jacob.

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   In thee we shall turn out our enemies with the horn, & in thy name we shall contemn them that rise up against us.

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   For I will not hope in my bow: and my sword will not save me.

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   For thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and them that hate us thou hast confounded.

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   In God we shall be praised all the day: and in thy name we will confess for ever.

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    But now thou hast repelled and confounded us: and thou wilt not go forth, o God, in our hosts.

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    Thou hast turned us back behind our enemies: and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.

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    Thou hast given us as sheep that are to be eaten: and thou hast dispersed us among the nations.

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    Thou hast sold thy people without price: and there was no multitude in the exchanges of them.

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    Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and mocking stock to them that are round about us.

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    Thou hast made us for a parable to the Gentiles: a wagging of the head among the peoples.

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    All the day my shame is against me, and the confusion of my face hath covered me.

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    At the voice of the upbraider, and the reproacher: at the face of the enemy and persecutor.

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    All these things have come upon us, neither have we forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy testament.

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    And our heart hath not revolted backward: & thou hast declined our paths from thy way.

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    Because thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction, and the shadow of death hath covered us.

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    If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god,

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    Will not God enquire of these things? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thee we are killed all the day: we are esteemed as sheep of slaughter.

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    Arise, why sleepest thou, o Lord? Arise, and expel us not to the end.

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    Why dost thou turn away thy face, forgettest our poverty and our tribulation?

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    Because our soul is humbled in the dust: our belly is glued in the earth.

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    Arise Lord, help us: and redeem us for thy name.