1 W e have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us work You did in their days, in the days of old.

2 Y ou drove out the nations with Your hand and it was Your power that gave a home by rooting out the peoples, but You spread out.

3 F or they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance, because You were favorable toward and did delight in them.

4 Y ou are my King, O God; command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).

5 T hrough You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us.

6 F or I will not trust in and lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

7 B ut You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us.

8 I n God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah!

9 B ut now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies.

10 Y ou make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.

11 Y ou have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations.

12 Y ou sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price.

13 Y ou have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.

14 Y ou make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people.

15 M y dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face

16 A t the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.

17 A ll this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant.

18 O ur hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path,

19 T hough You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death.

20 I f we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god,

21 W ould not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.

22 N o, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

23 A wake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever!

24 W hy do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?

25 F or our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground.

26 R ise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy’s sake and because of Your steadfast love!