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Redeem Us

(Romans 8:35-39)

¹ For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in days of long ago.² With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.³ For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory; it was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face; for You delighted in them.⁴ You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.⁵ Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.⁶ For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword deliver me.⁷ But You give us victory over our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.⁸ In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah

⁹ But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.¹⁰ You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.¹¹ You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.¹² You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.¹³ You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.¹⁴ You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples^(a).¹⁵ All day long my disgrace is before me and shame has covered my face,¹⁶ at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.¹⁸ Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.¹⁹ But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,²¹ would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?²² Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.²³ Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and forget our misery and oppression?²⁵ For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.²⁶ Rise up, be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.