IN GOD WE BOAST ALL THE DAY LONG,PSALMS PAGE 553
Psalms:44:8: In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
Psalms:44:9: But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
Psalms:44:10: Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
Psalms:44:11: Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
Psalms:44:12: Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
Psalms:44:13: Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
Psalms:44:14: Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
Psalms:44:15: My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
Psalms:44:16: For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
Psalms:44:17: All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Psalms:44:18: Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
Psalms:44:19: Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
Psalms:44:20: If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
Psalms:44:21: Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psalms:44:22: Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Psalms:44:23: Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Psalms:44:24: Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
Psalms:44:25: For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Psalms:44:26: Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.
Chapter 45
Psalms:45:1: My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms:45:2: Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
Psalms:45:3: Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.
Psalms:45:4: And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.
Psalms:45:5: Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king’s enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.
Psalms:45:6: Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.
Psalms:45:7: Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Psalms:45:8: All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.
Psalms:45:9: Kings’ daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.
