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[1]We have heard with our ears, O God: our fathers have told us the works, that thou hast done in their days, in the old time:
[2]How thou hast driven out the heathen with thine hand, and planted them: how thou hast destroyed the people, and caused them to grow.
[3]For they inherited not the land 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 didst favor them.
[4]Thou art my King, O God: send help unto Jacob.
[5]Through thee have we thrust back our adversaries: by thy name have we trodden down them that rose up against us.
[6]For I do not trust in my bow, neither can my sword save me.
[7]But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to confusion that hate us.
[8]Therefore will we praise God continually, and will confess thy name forever. Selah.
[9]But now thou art far off, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our armies.
[10]Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary, and they, which hate us, spoil for themselves.
[11]Thou givest us as sheep to be eaten, and dost scatter us among the nations.
[12]Thou sellest thy people without gain, and dost not increase their price.
[13]Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a jest and a laughing stock to them that are round about us.
[14]Thou makest us a proverb among the nations, and a nodding of the head among the people.
[15]My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[16]For the voice of the slanderer and rebuker, for the enemy and avenger.
[17]All this is come upon us, yet do we not forget thee, neither deal we falsely concerning thy covenant.
[18]Our heart is not turned back: neither our steps gone out of thy paths,
[19]Albeit thou hast smitten us down into the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[20]If we have forgotten the name of our God, and holden up our hands to a strange god,
[21]Shall not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[22]Surely for thy sake are we slain continually, and are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[23]Up, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake, be not far off forever.
[24]Wherefore hidest thou thy face? And forgettest our misery and our affliction?
[25]For our soul is beaten down unto the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the ground.
[26]Rise up for our succor, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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