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[1]{To the chief Musician. Of the sons of Korah. An instruction.} O God, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
[2]Thou, by thy hand, didst dispossess the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them didst thou cause to spread out.
[3]For not by their own sword did they take possession of the land, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst delight in them.
[4]Thou thyself art my king, O God: command deliverance for Jacob.
[5]Through thee will we push down our adversaries; through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
[6]For I will not put confidence in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
[7]For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
[8]In God will we boast all the day, and we will praise thy name for ever. Selah.
[9]But thou hast cast off, and put us to confusion, and dost not go forth with our armies;
[10]Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;
[11]Thou hast given us over like sheep [appointed] for meat, and hast scattered us among the nations;
[12]Thou hast sold thy people for nought, and hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price;
[13]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision for them that are round about us;
[14]Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
[15]All the day my confusion is before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[16]Because of the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the avenger.
[17]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely against thy covenant:
[18]Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy path;
[19]Though thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[20]If we had forgotten the name of our God, and stretched out our hands to a strange ùgod,
[21]Would not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[22]But for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are reckoned as sheep for slaughter.
[23]Awake, why sleepest thou, 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]Rise up for our help, and redeem us for thy loving-kindness' sake.
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