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¹ O God, we have heard with our ears,
    ^(b)our fathers have told us,
what deeds you performed in their days,
    ^(c)in the days of old:
² you with your own hand ^(d)drove out the nations,
    but ^(e)them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
    but ^(f)them you set free;
³ for not ^(g)by their own sword did they win the land,
    nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
    and ^(h)the light of your face,
    ⁽ⁱ⁾for you delighted in them.

^4 (j)You are my King, O God;
    ^(k)ordain salvation for Jacob!
⁵ Through you we ^(l)push down our foes;
    through your name we ^(m)tread down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For not in ⁽ⁿ⁾my bow do I trust,
    nor can my sword save me.
⁷ But you have saved us from our foes
    and have ^(o)put to shame those who hate us.
^8 (p)In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

⁹ But you have ^(q)rejected us and disgraced us
    and ^(r)have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰ You have made us ^(s)turn back from the foe,
    and those who hate us have gotten spoil.
¹¹ You have made us like ^(t)sheep for slaughter
    and have ^(u)scattered us among the nations.
^12 (v)You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.
¹³ You have made us ^(w)the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and ^(x)scorn of those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us ^(y)a byword among the nations,
    ^(z)a laughingstock^[b] among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and ^(aa)shame has covered my face
¹⁶ at the sound of the taunter and reviler,
    at the sight of ^(ab)the enemy and the avenger.

^17 (ac)All this has come upon us,
    though we have not forgotten you,
    and we have not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our ^(ad)steps ^(ae)departed from your way;
¹⁹ yet you have ^(af)broken us in the place of ^(ag)jackals
    and covered us with ^(ah)the shadow of death.
²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or ^(ai)spread out our hands to ^(aj)a foreign god,
^21 (ak)would not God discover this?
    ^(al)For he knows the secrets of the heart.
²² Yet ^(am)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

^23 (an)Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
    Rouse yourself! ^(ao)Do not reject us forever!
²⁴ Why ^(ap)do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵ For our ^(aq)soul is bowed down to the dust;
    our belly clings to the ground.
²⁶ Rise up; ^(ar)come to our help!
    ^(as)Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!