[1] We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
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[2] How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out.
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[3] For they got not 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 had a favor to them.
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[4] You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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[5] Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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[6] For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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[7] But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us.
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[8] In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah.
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[9] But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies.
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[10] You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
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[11] You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen.
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[12] You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price.
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[13] You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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[14] You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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[15] My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
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[16] For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
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[17] All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant.
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[18] Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way;
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[19] Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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[20] If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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[21] Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
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[22] Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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[23] Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
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[24] Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?
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[25] For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth.
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[26] Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake.
