1To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, Maschil. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.⇆ compare2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.⇆ compare3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favor unto them.⇆ compare4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.⇆ compare5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.⇆ compare6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.⇆ compare7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.⇆ compare8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name forever. Selah.⇆ compare9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.⇆ compare10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.⇆ compare11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.⇆ compare12Thou sellest thy people for naught, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.⇆ compare13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.⇆ compare14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.⇆ compare15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,⇆ compare16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.⇆ compare17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.⇆ compare18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;⇆ compare19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.⇆ compare20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;⇆ compare21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.⇆ compare22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.⇆ compare23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off forever.⇆ compare24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?⇆ compare25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.⇆ compare26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.⇆ compare