| | 1 | For the director of music. Of the Sons of Korah. A maskil. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago. | |
| | 2 | With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish. | |
| | 3 | It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them. | |
| | 4 | You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob. | |
| | 5 | Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes. | |
| | 6 | I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory; | |
| | 7 | but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame. | |
| | 8 | In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah | |
| | 9 | But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies. | |
| | 10 | You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us. | |
| | 11 | You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations. | |
| | 12 | You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale. | |
| | 13 | You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us. | |
| | 14 | You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us. | |
| | 15 | My disgrace is before me all day long, and my face is covered with shame | |
| | 16 | at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge. | |
| | 17 | All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant. | |
| | 18 | Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path. | |
| | 19 | But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness. | |
| | 20 | If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, | |
| | 21 | would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart? | |
| | 22 | Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. | |
| | 23 | Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever. | |
| | 24 | Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression? | |
| | 25 | We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. | |
| | 26 | Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love. | |
