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¹ To the chief musician. A Contemplation for 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 the days of old.² You drove out nations with Your hand and planted them. You brought evil on peoples and sent them out.³ For they did not inherit the land with their own sword; yea, their own arm did not save them. But it was Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your face, because You favored them.⁴ You are He, my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.⁵ Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.⁶ For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.⁷ But You have saved us from our adversaries and have put to shame those who hate us.⁸ We boast in God all the day; and we praise Your name forever. Selah.

⁹ Now You have cast us off and have shamed us. And You do not go forth with our armies.¹⁰ You make us turn back from the oppressor; yea, those hating us plunder for themselves.¹¹ You have given us like sheep for food and have scattered us among the nations.¹² For no gain You have sold Your people, and You are not increased by their price.¹³ You made us a disgrace to our neighbors, a scorn and a mockery to those around us.¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.¹⁵ My humiliation is before me all the day; yea, the shame of my face covers me,¹⁶ because of the slanderer's voice and the blasphemer, before the face of the enemy and avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, and we have not forgotten You nor dealt falsely with Your covenant.¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not swerved from Your way,¹⁹ though You have crushed us in the place of jackals and covered us over with the death-shade.²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, and have spread our hands to an alien god,²¹ shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.²² Yea, for Your sake we are slain all the day; we are counted as sheep of slaughter.²³ Be aroused! Why do You sleep, O God? Awake! Do not cast us off forever.²⁴ Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and distress?²⁵ For our soul bows down to the dust; our belly holds fast to the earth.²⁶ Arise for our help and redeem us for the sake of Your mercy.