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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.

¹²Then came the word of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying,
¹³Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the Lord.
¹⁴The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
¹⁵I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
¹⁶Because the sons of Jonadab the son of Rechab have performed the commandment of their father, which he commanded them; but this people hath not hearkened unto me:
¹⁷Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring upon Judah and upon all the inhabitants of Jerusalem all the evil that I have pronounced against them: because I have spoken unto them, but they have not heard; and I have called unto them, but they have not answered.
¹⁸And Jeremiah said unto the house of the Rechabites, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Because ye have obeyed the commandment of Jonadab your father, and kept all his precepts, and done according unto all that he hath commanded you:
¹⁹Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Jonadab the son of Rechab shall not want a man to stand before me for ever.

¹⁸And he is the head of the body, the church: who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things he might have the preeminence.
¹⁹For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
²⁰And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.
²¹And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
²²In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:
²³If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;
²⁴Who now rejoice in my sufferings for you, and fill up that which is behind of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church:
²⁵Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;
²⁶Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints:
²⁷To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
²⁸Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:
²⁹Whereunto I also labour, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

2For I would that ye knew what great conflict I have for you, and for them at Laodicea, and for as many as have not seen my face in the flesh;
²That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
³In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
⁴And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
⁵For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.