| 1 | ¶ [To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.] O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old: | |
| 2 | Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out. | |
| 3 | For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them. | |
| 4 | Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob. | |
| 5 | Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. | |
| 6 | For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. | |
| 7 | For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us. | |
| 8 | In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah. | |
| 9 | ¶ But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies; | |
| 10 | Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves; | |
| 11 | Thou hast given us over like sheep {appointed} for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations; | |
| 12 | Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased {thy wealth} by their price; | |
| 13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us; | |
| 14 | Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. | |
| 15 | All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, | |
| 16 | Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger. | |
| 17 | ¶ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant: | |
| 18 | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path; | |
| 19 | Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death. | |
| 20 | If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange *god, | |
| 21 | Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. | |
| 22 | But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter. | |
| 23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, Lord? arise, cast {us} not off for ever. | |
| 24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, {and} forgettest our affliction and our oppression? | |
| 25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth. | |
| 26 | Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness? sake. | |