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¹ O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us, - The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime: ² Thou thyself, with thine own hand - Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out:³ For, not by their own sword, gat they possession of the land, Nor did, their own arm, win victory for them, - But thine own right hand, and thine own arm, and the light of thy face, Because thou hadst accepted them. ⁴ Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob.⁵ By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants;⁶ For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory;⁷ For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame.⁸ In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name - unto times age-abiding, will we praise. Selah.

⁹ But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts;¹⁰ Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will:¹¹ Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us.¹² Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price.¹³ Thou dust make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us:¹⁴ Thou dust make us, A by-word among the nations, - A shaking of the head among the peoples.¹⁵ All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me:¹⁶ At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.

¹⁷ All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant;¹⁸ Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path;¹⁹ That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow.²⁰ If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner,²¹ Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart?²² Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter.²³ Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether!²⁴ Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression?²⁵ For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth.²⁶ Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.