OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS DECLINED FROM THY WAY

PSALM 44:9-19

BUT THOU HAST CAST OFF, 
AND PUT US TO SHAME; 
AND GOEST NOT FORTH 
WITH OUR ARMIES. 
THOU MAKEST US TO TURN 
BACK FROM THE ENEMY: 
AND THEY WHICH HATE 
US SPOIL FOR THEMSELVES. 
THOU HAST GIVEN US LIKE SHEEP APPOINTED FOR MEAT; 
AND 
HAST SCATTERED US AMONG 
THE HEATHEN. 
THOU SELLEST 
THY PEOPLE FOR NOUGHT, 
AND DOST 
NOT INCREASE THY 
WEALTH BY THEIR PRICE. 
THOU MAKEST US 
A REPROACH TO OUR NEIGHBOURS, 
A SCORN AND A DERISION 
TO THEM THAT ARE ROUND 
ABOUT US. 
THOU MAKEST US 
A BYWORD AMONG THE HEATHEN, 
A SHAKING OF THE HEAD 
AMONG THE PEOPLE. 
MY CONFUSION
 IS CONTINUALLY BEFORE ME, 
AND 
THE SHAME OF MY FACE 
HATH COVERED ME, 
FOR THE VOICE OF HIM 
THAT 
REPROACHETH AND BLASPHEMETH; 
BY REASON OF 
THE ENEMY AND AVENGER. 
ALL THIS IS COME UPON US; 
YET HAVE WE NOT 
FORGOTTEN THEE, 
NEITHER HAVE WE DEALT 
FALSELY IN THY COVENANT. 
OUR HEART IS NOT TURNED BACK, 
NEITHER HAVE OUR STEPS 
DECLINED FROM THY WAY; 
THOUGH 
THOU HAST 
SORE BROKEN US IN THE 
PLACE OF DRAGONS, 
AND COVERED 
US WITH THE SHADOW OF DEATH.


LOVE

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