43:1Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

43:2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

43:3O send out thy light and thy truth: let them lead me; let them bring me unto thy holy hill, and to thy tabernacles.

43:4Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.

43:5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

44:0To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil.

44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

44:2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

44:3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

44:4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

44:5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

44:6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

44:7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

44:8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

44:10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

44:11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

44:12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

44:14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

44:15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

44:16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

44:17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

44:18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

44:19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

44:20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

44:22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

44:24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

44:25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

44:26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

45:0To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, for the sons of Korah, Maschil, A Song of loves.

45:1My 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.

45:2Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

45:3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

45:4And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

45:5Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

45:6Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

45:7Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

45:8All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

45:9Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

45:10Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

45:11So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

45:12And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.

45:13The king's daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

45:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of needlework: the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.

45:15With gladness and rejoicing shall they be brought: they shall enter into the king's palace.

45:16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

45:17I will make thy name to be remembered in all generations: therefore shall the people praise thee for ever and ever.