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

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

43:3Send out thy light and thy truth: *they* shall lead me, *they* shall bring me to thy holy mount, and unto thy habitations.

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

43:5Why art thou cast down, 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. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.

44:1O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:

44:2Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.

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

44:4Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.

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

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

44:7For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

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

44:9But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;

44:10Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;

44:11Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;

44:12Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased thy wealth by their price;

44:13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;

44:14Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.

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

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

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

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

44:19Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.

44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange *god,

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

44:22But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.

44:23Awake, why sleepest thou, 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.

44:26Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake.

45:0To the chief Musician. Upon Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction; -- a song of the Beloved.

45:1My heart is welling forth with a good matter: I say what I have composed touching the king. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

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

45:3Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one, in thy majesty and thy splendour;

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

45:5Thine arrows are sharp -- peoples fall under thee -- in the heart of the king's enemies.

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

45:7Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness; therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy companions.

45:8Myrrh and aloes, cassia, are all thy garments; out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made thee glad.

45:9Kings' daughters are among thine honourable women; upon thy right hand doth stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

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

45:11And the king will desire thy beauty; for he is thy Lord, and worship thou him.

45:12And the daughter of Tyre with a gift, the rich ones among the people, shall court thy favour.

45:13All glorious is the king's daughter within; her clothing is of wrought gold:

45:14She shall be brought unto the king in raiment of embroidery; the virgins behind her, her companions, shall be brought in unto thee:

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

45:16Instead of thy fathers shall be thy sons; princes shalt thou make them in all the earth.

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