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With your hand you expelled the nations
    and established our ancestors.[a]
You afflicted nations
    and cast them out.
It was not with their sword that they inherited the land,
    nor did their own arm deliver them.
But it was by your power,[b] your strength,
    and by the light of your face;
        because you were pleased with them.

You are my king, God,
    command[c] victories[d] for Jacob.

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  1. Psalm 44:2 Lit. them
  2. Psalm 44:3 Lit. right hand
  3. Psalm 44:4 So MT DSS 11QPsc; LXX reads truly my king and my God, who commands
  4. Psalm 44:4 Lit. deliverances

With your hand you drove out(A) the nations
    and planted(B) our ancestors;
you crushed(C) the peoples
    and made our ancestors flourish.(D)
It was not by their sword(E) that they won the land,
    nor did their arm bring them victory;
it was your right hand,(F) your arm,(G)
    and the light(H) of your face, for you loved(I) them.

You are my King(J) and my God,(K)
    who decrees[a] victories(L) for Jacob.

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  1. Psalm 44:4 Septuagint, Aquila and Syriac; Hebrew King, O God; / command