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Psalm 44

¹We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
²How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
³For 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.
⁴Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
⁵Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
⁶For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
⁷But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
⁸In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
⁹But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
¹⁰Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
¹¹Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
¹²Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
¹³Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
¹⁴Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
¹⁵My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
¹⁶For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
¹⁷All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
¹⁸Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
¹⁹Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
²⁰If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
²¹Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
²²Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
²³Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
²⁴Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
²⁶Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.

²⁵And Elijah said unto the prophets of Baal, Choose you one bullock for yourselves, and dress it first; for ye are many; and call on the name of your gods, but put no fire under.
²⁶And they took the bullock which was given them, and they dressed it, and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon, saying, O Baal, hear us. But there was no voice, nor any that answered. And they leaped upon the altar which was made.
²⁷And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
²⁸And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
²⁹And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
³⁰And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the Lord that was broken down.
³⁶And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near, and said, Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word.
³⁷Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
³⁸Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
³⁹And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, The Lord, he is the God; the Lord, he is the God.
⁴⁰And Elijah said unto them, Take the prophets of Baal; let not one of them escape. And they took them: and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon, and slew them there.
⁴¹And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.
⁴²So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he cast himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees,
⁴³And said to his servant, Go up now, look toward the sea. And he went up, and looked, and said, There is nothing. And he said, Go again seven times.
⁴⁴And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea, like a man’s hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Prepare thy chariot, and get thee down that the rain stop thee not.
⁴⁵And it came to pass in the mean while, that the heaven was black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel.
⁴⁶And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

2My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
²For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;
³And ye have respect to him that weareth the gay clothing, and say unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit here under my footstool:
⁴Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
⁵Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
⁶But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?
⁷Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
⁸If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:
⁹But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.
¹⁰For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
¹¹For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou commit no adultery, yet if thou kill, thou art become a transgressor of the law.
¹²So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
¹³For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.