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[1]WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what work thou hast wrought in their days, in the times of old;
[2]How thou didst destroy the Gentiles with thy hand, and established thy people; how thou didst vex the kingdoms, and strengthened thy people.
[3]For they inherited not the land by their sword, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou wast pleased with them.
[4]Thou art my King, O God; for thou commandest deliverances for Jacob.
[5]Through thee will we pierce our enemies; through thy name will we tread them under that hate us.
[6]For we trust not in our bows; neither on our armour to save us.
[7]But thou hast saved us from those who hate us, and hast put to shame our enemies.
[8]We glorify thee, O God, all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
[9]But now thou hast forsaken us and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies:
[10]But thou makest us to be defeated; and our enemies have plundered us.
[11]Thou hast sold us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the Gentiles.
[12]Thou hast sold thy people as a bargain, and dost not profit by their exchange.
[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 Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.
[15]All the day long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
[16]Because of the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes; and because of the enemy that avenges.
[17]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[18]We have not turned back, neither have we swerved our steps from thy way;
[19]For thou hast humbled us a second time in the land, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[20]And yet we have not forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods;
[21]God will look into this thing, for he knows the secrets of the heart.
[22]Yea, for thy sake are we killed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[23]Awake and sleep not, O LORD; remember us and forsake us not.
[24]Turn not thy face from us, and forget not our humiliation and our oppression;
[25]For our soul is humbled down to the dust; our body touches the earth.
[26]Arise to help us; redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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