Psalms of David 44
44
PSALM XLIV.
C. M.
1O Lord, our fathers oft have told
In our attentive ears,
Thy wonders in their days perform’d,
And elder times than theirs:
2How thou, to plant them here, didst drive
The heathen from this land;
Dispeopled by repeated strokes
Of thy avenging hand.
3For not their courage, nor their sword
To them possession gave;
Nor strength, that from unequal force
Their fainting troops could save:
But thy right hand and pow’rful arm,
Whose succour they implor’d;
Thy presence with the chosen race,
Who thy great Name ador’d.
4As thee their God our fathers own’d,
Thou art our sov’reign King;
Otherefore, as thou didst to them,
To us deliv’rance bring.
5Through thy victorious Name our arms
The proudest foes shall quell,
And crush them with repeated strokes,
As oft as they rebel.
6I’ll neither trust my bow nor sword,
When I in fight engage;
7But thee, who hast our foes subdu’d,
And sham’d their spiteful rage.
8To thee the triumph we ascribe,
From whom the conquest came;
In God we will rejoice all day,
And ever bless his Name.
The Second Part.
9But thou hast cast us off, and now
Most shamefully we yield;
For thou no more vouchsaf’st to lead
Our armies to the field.
10Since when, to ev’ry upstart foe
We turn our backs in fight;
And with our spoil their malice feast,
Who bear us ancient spite.
11To slaughter doom’d, we fall like sheep
Into their butch’ring hands;
Or (what’s more wretched yet) survive,
Dispers’d through heathen lands.
12Thy people thou hast sold for slaves,
And set their price so low,
That not thy treasure by the sale,
But their disgrace may grow.
13-14Reproach’d by all the nations round,
The heathen’s byword grown,
Whose scorn of us is both in speech
And mocking gestures shown.
15Confusion strikes me blind, my face
In conscious shame I hide,
16While we are scoff’d, and God blasphem’d,
By their licentious pride.
The Third Part.
17On us this heap of woes is fall’n,
All this we have endur’d;
Yet have not, Lord, renounc’d thy Name,
Or faith to thee abjur’d.
18But in thy righteous paths have kept
Our hearts and steps with care;
19Tho’ thou hast broken all our strength,
And we almost despair.
20Could we, forgetting thy great Name,
On other gods rely,
21And not the Searcher of all hearts
The treach’rous crime descry?
22Thou seest what suff’rings for thy sake
We ev’ry day sustain;
All slaughter’d, or reserv’d like sheep
Appointed to be slain.
23Awake, arise; let seeming sleep
No longer thee detain;
Nor let us, Lord, who sue to thee,
For ever sue in vain.
24O wherefore hidest thou thy face
From our afflicted state?
25Whose souls and bodies sink to earth,
With grief’s oppressive weight.
26Arise, O Lord, and timely haste
To our deliv’rance make;
Redeem us, Lord, if not for ours,
Yet for thy mercy’s sake.
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Psalms of David 44: MP1696
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First published 1696, improved 1698.