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[1]We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
[2]How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
[3]For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
[4]Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
[5]Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we 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 thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
[8]In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
[9]But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
[10]Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
[11]Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
[12]Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
[13]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
[14]Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
[15]My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[16]For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
[17]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[18]Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
[19]Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[20]If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
[21]Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[22]Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[23]Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
[25]For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
[26]Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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