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¹ O God, we have heard with our ears,
Our ^(a)fathers have told us
The ^(b)work that You did in their days,
In the ^(c)days of old.
² You with Your own hand ^(d)drove out the nations;
Then You ^(e)planted them;
You ^(f)afflicted the peoples,
Then You ^(g)spread them abroad.
³ For by their own sword they ^(h)did not possess the land,
And their own arm did not save them,
But Your right hand and Your ⁽ⁱ⁾arm and the ^(j)light of Your presence,
For You ^(k)favored them.

⁴ You are ^(l)my King, O God;
^(m)Command ^[b]victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through You we will ⁽ⁿ⁾push back our adversaries;
Through Your name we will ^(o)trample down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For I will ^(p)not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.
⁷ But You ^(q)have saved us from our adversaries,
And You have ^(r)put to shame those who hate us.
⁸ In God we have ^(s)boasted all day long,
And we will ^(t)give thanks to Your name forever. ^[c]Selah.

⁹ Yet You ^(u)have rejected us and brought us to ^(v)dishonor,
And ^(w)do not go out with our armies.
¹⁰ You cause us to ^(x)turn back from the adversary;
And those who hate us ^(y)have taken spoil for themselves.
¹¹ You give us as ^(z)sheep ^[d]to be eaten
And have ^(aa)scattered us among the nations.
¹² You ^(ab)sell Your people ^[e]cheaply,
And have not ^[f]profited by their sale.
¹³ You make us a ^(ac)reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a ^(ad)derision to those around us.
¹⁴ You make us ^(ae)a byword among the nations,
A ^[g](af)laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my dishonor is before me
And ^[h]my ^(ag)humiliation has overwhelmed me,
¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who ^(ah)reproaches and reviles,
Because of the presence of the ^(ai)enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us, but we have ^(aj)not forgotten You,
And we have not ^(ak)dealt falsely with Your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not ^(al)turned back,
And our steps ^(am)have not deviated from Your way,
¹⁹ Yet You have ^(an)crushed us in a place of ^(ao)jackals
And covered us with ^(ap)the shadow of death.

²⁰ If we had ^(aq)forgotten the name of our God
Or extended our ^[i]hands to ^(ar)a strange god,
²¹ Would not God ^(as)find this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
²² But ^(at)for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are considered as ^(au)sheep to be slaughtered.
^23 (av)Arouse Yourself, why ^(aw)do You sleep, O Lord?
Awake, ^(ax)do not reject us forever.
²⁴ Why do You ^(ay)hide Your face
And ^(az)forget our affliction and our oppression?
²⁵ For our ^(ba)soul has sunk down into the dust;
Our body cleaves to the earth.
^26 (bb)Rise up, be our help,
And ^(bc)redeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.