| 1 | for the sons of Korah, Maschil.> We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, [what] work thou didst in their days, in the times of old. |
| 2 | [How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
| 3 | For 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. |
| 4 | Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
| 5 | Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| 6 | For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
| 7 | But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
| 8 | In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
| 9 | But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
| 10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. |
| 11 | Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
| 12 | Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price. |
| 13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
| 14 | Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
| 15 | My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
| 16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
| 17 | All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| 18 | Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
| 19 | Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
| 20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
| 21 | Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
| 22 | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| 23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O 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 | Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
