Deus auribus nostris.
The church commemorates former favours, and present afflictions; under
which she prays for succour.
43:1. Unto the end, for the sons of Core, to give understanding.
43:2. We have heard, O God, with our ears: our fathers have declared to
us, The work thou hast wrought in their days, and in the days of old.
43:3. Thy hand destroyed the Gentiles, and thou plantedst them: thou
didst afflict the people and cast them out.
43:4. For they got not the possession of the land by their own sword:
neither did their own arm save them. But thy right hand and thy arm, and
the light of thy countenance: because thou wast pleased with them.
43:5. Thou art thyself my king and my God, who commandest the saving of
Jacob.
43:6. Through thee we will push down our enemies with the horn: and
through thy name we will despise them that rise up against us.
43:7. For I will not trust in my bow: neither shall my sword save me.
43:8. But thou hast saved us from them that afflict us: and hast put
them to shame that hate us.
43:9. In God shall we glory all the day long: and in thy name we will
give praise for ever.
43:10. But now thou hast cast us off, and put us to shame: and thou,
O God, wilt not go out with our armies.
43:11. Thou hast made us turn our back to our enemies: and they that
hated us plundered for themselves.
43:12. Thou hast given us up like sheep to be eaten: thou hast scattered
us among the nations.
43:13. Thou hast sold thy people for no price: and there was no
reckoning in the exchange of them.
43:14. Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scoff and
derision to them that are round about us.
43:15. Thou hast made us a byword among the Gentiles: a shaking of the
head among the people.
43:16. All the day long my shame is before me: and the confusion of my
face hath covered me,
43:17. At the voice of him that reproacheth and detracteth me: at the
face of the enemy and persecutor.
43:18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten
thee: and we have not done wickedly in thy covenant.
43:19. And our heart hath not turned back: neither hast thou turned
aside our steps from thy way.
43:20. For thou hast humbled us in the place of affliction: and the
shadow of death hath covered us.
43:21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread
forth our hands to a strange god:
43:22. Shall not God search out these things: for he knoweth the secrets
of the heart. Because for thy sake we are killed all the day long: we
are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
43:23. Arise, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and cast us not off to
the end.
43:24. Why turnest thou thy face away? and forgettest our want and our
trouble?
43:25. For our soul is humbled down to the dust: our belly cleaveth to
the earth.
43:26. Arise, O Lord, help us and redeem us for thy name's sake.