so that they
which hate us spoil our goods.

12 Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep: and hast scattered us
among the heathen.

13 Thou sellest thy people for nought: and takest no money for them.

14 Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours: to be laughed
to scorn, and had in derision of them that are round about us.

15 Thou makest us to be a by-word among the heathen: and that the
people shake their heads at us.

16 My confusion is daily before me: and the shame of my face hath
covered me;

17 For the voice of the slanderer and blasphemer: for the enemy
and avenger.

18 And though all this be come upon us, yet do we not forget thee:
nor behave ourselves frowardly in thy covenant.

19 Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy
way;

20 No, not when thou hast smitten us into the place of dragons:
and covered us with the shadow of death.

21 If we have forgotten the Name of our God, and holden up our
hands to any strange god: shall not God search it out? for he
knoweth the very secrets of the heart.

22 For thy sake also are we killed all the day long: and are counted
as sheep appointed to be slain.

23 Up, Lord, why sleepest thou: awake, and be not absent from us
for ever.

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face: and forgettest our misery and
trouble?

25 For our soul is brought low, even unto the dust: our belly
cleaveth unto the ground.

26 Arise, and help us: and deliver us for thy mercy's sake.

PSALM 45. _Eructavit cor meum_.

My heart is inditing of a good matter: I speak of the things which
I have made unto the

2 My tongue is the pen: of a ready writer.

3 Thou art fairer than the children of men: full of grace are thy
lips, because God hath blessed thee for ever.

4 Gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh, O thou most Mighty:
according to thy worship and renown.

5 Good luck have thou with thine honour: ride on, because of the
word of truth, of meekness, and righteousness; and thy right hand
shall teach thee terrible things.

6 Thy arrows are very sharp, and the people shall be subdued unto
thee: even in the midst among the King's enemies.

7 Thy seat, O God, endureth for ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom
is a right sceptre.

8 Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity: wherefore God,
even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy
fellows.

9 All thy garments smell of myrrh, aloes, and cassia: out of the
ivory palaces, wh