43:5. Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of Jacob. 43:6. Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us. 43:7. For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me. 43:8. But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put them to shame that hate us. 43:9. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will give praise for ever. 43:10. But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou , O God, wilt not go out with our armies. 43:11. Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that hated us plundered for themselves. 43:12. Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered us among the nations. 43:13. Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no reckoning in the exchange of them. 43:14. Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and derision to them that are round about us. 43:15. Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the head among the people. 43:16. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my face hath covered me, 43:17. At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the face of the enemy and persecutor. 43:18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant. 43:19. And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned aside our steps from thy way. 43:20. For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the shadow of death hath covered us. 43:21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god: 43:22. Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 43:23. Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to the end. 43:24. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our trouble? 43:25. For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to the earth. 43:26. Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake. Psalms Chapter 44 Eructavit cor meum. The excellence of Christ's kingdom, and the endowments of his church. 44:1. Unto the end, for them that shall be changed, for the sons of Core, for understanding. A canticle for the Beloved. For them that shall be changed. . .i.e., for souls happily changed, by being converted to God.--Ibid. The Beloved. . .Viz., Our Lord Jesus Christ. 44:2. My heart hath uttered a good word: I speak my works to the king: My tongue is the pen of a scrivener that writeth swiftly. 44:3. Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God blessed thee for ever. 44:4. Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most mighty.