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Tahiliym 44

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Book II: The Corporate Lament and the Appeal to Ancient Victories

To the chief Musician for the sons of Qorach, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O Alahiym, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
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The Sovereign Architect of the Conquest

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
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The Confidence in the Divine Commander

Thou art my King, O Alahiym: command deliverances for Ya'aqob.
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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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The Rejection of Kinetic Reliance

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
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In Alahiym we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
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The Present Humiliation of the Qahal

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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The Valuation of the Remnant

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
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The Confession of Covenant Integrity

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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The Searcher of Secrets

If we have forgotten the name of our Alahiym, or stretched out our hands to a strange el;
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Shall not Alahiym search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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The Shadow of the Martyrs

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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The Final Cry for Redemption

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Adun? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.