To the chief musician; for the sons of Korah, Maschil.{HR}O God, with our ears have we heard;{HR}Our fathers have declared unto us the work{HR}[Which] thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
Thou [with] thy hand didst drive out the Gentiles and plant them;{HR}Thou didst evil to nations and didst send them forth.
For not with their sword did they take possession of the land,{HR}Neither did their arm deliver them;{HR}But thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance,{HR}Because thou takedst pleasure in them.
Thou [art] he, my king,{HR}O God; command the deliverances of Jacob.
By thee will we push down our adversaries;{HR}In thy name will we tread under foot those that rise up against us.
For not in my bow will I trust,{HR}And my sword shall not save me.
For thou hast saved us from our adversaries,{HR}And those who hate us thou hast put to shame.
In God have we praised all the day,{HR}And we will give thanks to thy name forever. Selah.
But now thou hast cast off and put us to shame,{HR}And thou goest not forth with our armies.
Thou causest us to turn back before the enemy,{HR}And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
Thou givest us as sheep (for) food,{HR}And among the Gentiles hast thou scattered us.
Thou sellest thy people without gain,{HR}And hast not increased by their price.
Thou settest us [as] a reproach to our neighbours,{HR}A scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.
Thou settest us a by-word among the Gentiles,{HR}A shaking of the head among the nations.
All the day my shame [is] before me,{HR}And the confusion of my face hath covered me,
Because of the voice of him who reproacheth and blasphemeth,{HR}Because of the face of the enemy and the avenger.
All this has come upon us;{HR}Yet have we not forgotten thee,{HR}And we have not acted falsely to thy covenant.
Our heart hath not turned backward,{HR}Nor hath our step declined from thy path.
But thou hast broken us to pieces in the place of large serpents,{HR}And hast covered us over with the shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God,{HR}And have stretched out our hands to a strange god,
Will not God search this out?{HR}For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
But for thy sake we have been killed all the day,{HR}We have been counted as sheep for slaughter.
Awake; why sleepest thou, Ο Lord?{HR}Arise, cast us not off forever.
Why hidest thou thy face?{HR}[Why] forgettest thou our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul hath been bowed down to the dust,{HR}Our belly hath cleaved unto the earth.
Arise, a help unto us,{HR}And redeem us for thy mercy’s sake.