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¹ For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their days, In the days of old.² You drove out the nations with your hand; But you planted them: You afflicted the peoples; But you spread them abroad.³ For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, Because you were favorable to them.⁴ You are my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob.⁵ Through you we will push down our adversaries: Through your name we will tread them under that rise up against us.⁶ For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.⁷ But you have saved us from our adversaries, And have put them to shame that hate us.⁸ In God we have made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.

⁹ But now you have cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go forth with our hosts.¹⁰ You make us to turn back from the adversary; And those that hate us take spoil for themselves.¹¹ You have made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And have scattered us among the nations.¹² You sell your people for nothing, And have not increased [your wealth] by their price.¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those that are round about us.¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.¹⁵ All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face has covered me,¹⁶ For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes, By reason of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come on us; Yet we have not forgotten you, Neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.¹⁸ Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from your way,¹⁹ That you have intensely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.²⁰ If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;²¹ Will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.²² Yes, for your sake we are killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.²³ Awake, why do you sleep, O Lord? Arise, don't cast [us] off forever.²⁴ Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaves to the earth.²⁶ Rise up for our help, And redeem us for your loving-kindness' sake.