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[1]For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
[2]O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
[3]Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.
[4]For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou w favourable unto them.
[5]Thou art my King, O God; command the salvation of Jacob.
[6]Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.
[7]For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me.
[8]But Thou hast saved us from adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
[9]In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah
[10]Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.
[11]Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.
[12]Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.
[13]Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.
[14]Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
[15]Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
[16]All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[17]For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
[18]All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.
[19]Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;
[20]Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[21]If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
[22]Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[23]Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
[24]Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.
[25]Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
[26]For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
[27]Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.
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