Part 24

19:044:011 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

19:044:012 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

19:044:013 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

19:044:014 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

19:044:015 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

19:044:016 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

19:044:017 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

19:044:018 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

19:044:019 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

19:044:020 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

19:044:021 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

19:044:022 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

19:044:023 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

19:044:024 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

19:044:025 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

19:044:026 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

19:045:001 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

19:045:002 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

19:045:003 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with thy glory and thy majesty.

19:045:004 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

19:045:005 Thine arrows are sharp in the heart of the king's enemies; whereby the people fall under thee.

19:045:006 Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.

19:045:007 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

19:045:008 All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

19:045:009 Kings' daughters were among thy honourable women: upon thy right hand did stand the queen in gold of Ophir.

19:045:010 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father's house;

19:045:011 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy Lord; and worship thou him.

19:045:012 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift; even the rich among the people shall intreat thy favour.