
Day IX : Morning Prayer

44 - Deus, auribus

1   We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us 🞙
    what you did in the days of old:

2   How you drove out the nations with your hand, and planted our fathers in the land; 🞙
    how you destroyed the nations and cast them out.

3   For they did not possess the land by their own sword, 🞙
    neither was it their own arm that helped them,

4   But by your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, 🞙
    because you favored them.

5   You are my King, O God; 🞙
    you send help to Jacob.

6   Through you we will overthrow our enemies, 🞙
    and in your Name will we tread down those who rise up against us.

7   For I will not trust in my bow; 🞙
    it is not my sword that shall help me;

8   But you save us from our enemies 🞙
    and put to shame those who hate us.

9   We make our boast in God all day long 🞙
    and will praise your Name for ever.

10  But now you have cast us off and put us to shame, 🞙
    and you do not go forth with our armies.

11  You make us turn our backs upon our enemies, 🞙
    so that those who hate us plunder our goods.

12  You let us be eaten up like sheep 🞙
    and have scattered us among the nations.

13  You sell your people for nothing 🞙
    and take no money for them.

14  You make us the reproach of our neighbors, 🞙
    to be laughed to scorn, and held in derision by those who are round about us.

15  You make us a byword among the nations, 🞙
    so that the peoples shake their heads at us.

16  My disgrace is daily before me, 🞙
    and the shame of my face has covered me,

17  Because of the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer, 🞙
    because of the enemy and avenger.

18  And though all this has come upon us, yet we do not forget you, 🞙
    nor have we been unfaithful to your covenant.

19  Our heart has not turned back, 🞙
    nor have our steps departed from your way,

20  Though you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, 🞙
    and covered us with the shadow of death.

21  If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and held up our hands to any strange god, 🞙
    shall not God search it out? For he knows the very secrets of the heart.

22  For your sake we are killed all the day long, 🞙
    and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.

23  Rise up, O Lord! Why are you sleeping? 🞙
    Awake, and cast us not away for ever.

24  Why do you hide your face 🞙
    and forget our misery and trouble?

25  For our soul is brought low, even to the dust; 🞙
    our belly cleaves to the ground.

26  Arise, O Lord, and help us, 🞙
    and deliver us for your mercy’s sake.
