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[1]O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the work which thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old.
[2]Thine hand utterly destroyed the heathen, and thou didst plant them: thou didst afflict the nations, and cast them out.
[3]For they inherited not the land by their own sword, and their own arm did not deliver them; but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou wert well pleased in them.
[4]Thou art indeed my King and my God, who commandest deliverances for Jacob.
[5]In thee will we push down our enemies, and in thy name will we bring to nought them that rise up against us.
[6]For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword shall not save me.
[7]For thou hast saved us from them that afflicted us, and hast put to shame them that hated us.
[8]In God will we make our boast all the day, and to thy name will we give thanks for ever. Pause.
[9]But now thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and thou wilt not go forth with our hosts.
[10]Thou hast turned us back before our enemies; and they that hated us spoiled for themselves.
[11]Thou madest us as sheep for meat; and thou scatteredst us among the nations.
[12]Thou hast sold thy people without price, and there was no profit by their exchange.
[13]Thou hast made us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.
[14]Thou hast made us a proverb among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.
[15]All the day my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
[16]because of the voice of the slanderer and reviler; because of the enemy and avenger.
[17]All these things are come upon us: but we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt unrighteously in thy covenant.
[18]And our heart has not gone back; but thou hast turned aside our paths from thy way.
[19]For thou hast laid us low in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
[20]If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread out our hands to a strange god; shall not God search these things out?
[21]for he knows the secrets of the heart.
[22]For, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for slaughter.
[23]Awake, wherefore sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, and do not cast us off for ever.
[24]Wherefore turnest thou thy face away, and forgettest our poverty and our affliction?
[25]For our soul has been brought down to the dust; our belly has cleaved to the earth.
[26]Arise, O Lord, help us, and redeem us for thy name's sake.
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