From Jor dan land, from Her-mon's height, And ev'n from

2 O thou the God of all my strength,
Why thrust me then away?

And for oppression of the foe
Why mourn I all the day?

3 O send thy light forth and thy truth,
Let them be guides to me;
And bring me to thine holy hill,
Ev'n where thy dwellings be.

4 Then will I to God's altar go,
To God my chiefest joy;

Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise
My harp I will employ.

5 Why art thou then cast down, my soul?
What should discourage thee?

And why with vexing thoughts art thou
Disquieted in me?

6 Hope thou in God; for him to praise
Good cause I yet shall see;

The helper of my countenance,
Yea, mine own God is he.

PSALM XLIV

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Day's Psalter

I. O God, we with our ears have heard, Our fa thers have us

told,

I O God, we with our ears have heard, 4 Thou art my King; for Jacob, Lord, Our fathers have us told,

Deliverance command.

What work thou in their days hadst done, Through thee we shall push down the Ev'n in the days of old.

2 Thy hand did drive the heathen out And plant them in their place;

Thou didst afflict the nations all,

But thou didst them increase.

That now against us stand. [foes

5 We through thy name will tread down That ris'n against us have; [those For in my bow I will not trust

Nor shall my sword me save.

3 Because their sword gat not the land, 6 But thou hast saved us from our foes,

Nor did their arm them save;

But thy right hand, arm, countenance,

Thy favor conquest gave.

Our haters put to shame;

In God we all the day do boast
And ever praise thy name.

7 But we are now cast off by thee,
Thou puttest us to shame;

And when our hosts go forth to war
Thou art not with the same.

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8 And from the adversary thou

Hast made us to turn back;

And they who hate us for themselves
Our spoils away do take.

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9 Like sheep for meat thou gavest us; 'Mong heathen cast are we.

By reason of th'avenging foe
And cruel enemy.

All this is come on us, yet we
Have not forgotten thee;

Nor falsely in thy covenant

Behaved ourselves have we..

Our heart, our steps have not turned back
Nor from thy way have strayed;
Though crushed by thee in dragon's place
And covered with death's shade.

Thou didst thy people sell for naught; 16 If God's name we forgot or stretched

Their price enriched not thee.

10 Thou makest us a great reproach

To neighbors near and far; Derision and a scorn to them

That round about us are.

II A by-word also thou dost us

Among the heathen make;
The people in contempt and spite
At us their heads do shake.

12 Before me all the livelong day
I see my sad disgrace;

And I am covered with the shame
That clouds my troubled face;

13 Because of him that doth reproach
And speaketh blasphemy;

To alien gods our hands,

Will not God search out this? For he
Heart secrets understands.

17 Yea, for thy sake we're killed all day,
And deemed as slaughter sheep.
Rise, Lord, cast us not ever off,
Awake, why dost thou sleep?
18 O wherefore hidest thou thy face?
Forget'st our case distressed,
And our oppression? For our soul
Is to the dust down pressed;

19 Our body fallen to the earth
Upon it hold doth take.
Rise for our help, redeem thou us
Ev'n for thy mercy's sake.

I O God, we have heard and our fathers have told
What wonders thou didst in the great days of old;
Where nations were crushed and cast out by thy hand,
Thou plantedst our fathers to dwell in the land.

2 They gained not the land by the edge of the sword;
Their own arm to them could no safety afford;
But thy right hand saved, and the light of thy face,
Because of thy favor, thy wonderful grace.

3 Command, and thy word shall deliverance bring,
O God, unto Jacob, for thou art my King.
Through thee we will surely put down all our foes,
Through thy name will trample on them that oppose.
4 No trust will I place in my sword or my bow,
'Tis thou who hast saved us from hater and foe.
In God we will boast who hast put them to shame,
And all the day long will give praise to thy name.

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PSALM XLIV

S. A. S. Metheny

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