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¹ For the Leader; [a Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil.² O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; ³ Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; ⁴ For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; ⁵ Thou art my King, O God; command the salvation of Jacob.⁶ Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.⁷ For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me.⁸ But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.

⁹ In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah¹⁰ Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.¹¹ Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.¹² Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.¹³ Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.¹⁴ Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.¹⁵ Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.¹⁶ All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

¹⁷ For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.¹⁸ All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.¹⁹ Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;²⁰ Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.²¹ If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;²² Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.²³ Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.²⁴ Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.²⁵ Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?²⁶ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

²⁷ Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.