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42.8 :By day the will command His lovingkindness,
 * And in the night His song shall be with me,
 * Even a prayer unto the God of my life.
 * I will say unto God my Rock: 'Why hast Thou forgotten me?
 * Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?'
 * As with a crushing in my bones, mine adversaries taunt me;
 * While they say unto me all the day: 'Where is Thy God?'
 * Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
 * And why moanest thou within me?
 * Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him,
 * The salvation of my countenance, and my God.


 * Be Thou my judge, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation;
 * O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
 * For Thou art the God of my strength; why hast Thou cast me off?
 * Why go I mourning under the oppression of the enemy?
 * O send out Thy light and Thy truth; let them lead me;
 * Let them bring me unto Thy holy mountain, and to Thy dwelling-places;
 * Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God, my exceeding joy;
 * And praise Thee upon the harp, O God, my God.
 * Why art thou cast down, O my soul?
 * And why moanest thou within me?
 * Hope thou in God; for I shall yet praise Him,
 * The salvation of my countenance, and my God.

For the Leader; [a Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.


 * O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us;
 * A work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
 * Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in;
 * Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.
 * For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession,
 * Neither did their own arm save them;
 * But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance,
 * Because Thou wast favourable unto them.


 * Thou art my King, O God;
 * Command the salvation of Jacob.
 * Through Thee do we push down our adversaries;
 * Through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.
 * For I trust not in my bow,
 * Neither can my sword save me.
 * But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries,
 * And hast put them to shame that hate us.
 * In God have we gloried all the day,
 * And we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever.


 * Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion;
 * And goest not forth with our hosts.
 * Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;
 * And they that hate us spoil at their will.
 * Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten;