| 1 | 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
and
it was Your power that gave [Israel] a home by rooting out the [heathen] peoples, but [Israel] You spread out. |
| 3 | For they got not the land [of Canaan] 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 [did it], because You were favorable toward
and
did delight in them. |
| 4 | You are my King, O God; command victories
and
deliverance for Jacob (Israel). |
| 5 | Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us. |
| 6 | For I will not trust in
and
lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
| 7 | But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us. |
| 8 | In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever.
Selah
[pause, and calmly think of that]! |
| 9 | But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies. |
| 10 | You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves. |
| 11 | You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations. |
| 12 | You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price. |
| 13 | You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us. |
| 14 | You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people. |
| 15 | My dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face |
| 16 | At the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful. |
| 17 | All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers]. |
| 18 | Our hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path, |
| 19 | Though You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death. |
| 20 | If we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god, |
| 21 | Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart. |
| 22 | No, but 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? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever! |
| 24 | Why do You hide Your face
and
forget our affliction and our oppression? |
| 25 | For our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground. |
| 26 | Rise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy’s sake
and
because of Your steadfast love! |
Cross references:
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Psalm 44:22 : Rom. 8:35-39.
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