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v1
O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors ^[Or “fathers”] have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.
v2
You with your hand drove out the nations, but them ^[That is, Israel] you planted. You harmed the peoples, but them ^[That is, Israel] you let spread out.
v3
For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.
v4
You are my king, O God. Command ^[Or “who commands,” see LXX] victories for Jacob.
v5
By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
v6
For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.
v7
Rather you have saved us from our enemies, ^[Or “made us victorious over our enemies”] and have humiliated those who hate us.
v8
In God we boast all the day, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
v9
Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.
v10
You have caused us to pull back from the enemy, and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves.
v11
You have given us as sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us.
v12
You have sold your people cheaply, ^[Literally “for what is not wealth”] and did not profit by their price.
v13
You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
v14
You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
v15
All day long ^[Literally “All of the day”] my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face covers me,
v16
because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler, because of the enemy and the avenger.
v17
All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.
v18
Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not turned aside from your way.
v19
But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.
v20
If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,
v21
would not God discover this, for he knows the secrets of the heart?
v22
Rather, on account of you we are killed all day long; ^[Literally “all of the day”] we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
v23
Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.
v24
Why do you hide your face? Have you forgotten our misery and our oppression?
v25
For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body ^[Literally “belly”] clings to the ground.
v26
Rise up! Be a help for us, and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love.