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[1] For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
[2] O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old.
[3] Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad.
[4] For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou w favourable unto them.
[5] Thou art my King, O God; command the salvation of Jacob.
[6] Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us.
[7] For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me.
[8] But Thou hast saved us from adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us.
[9] In God have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Selah
[10] Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts.
[11] Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will.
[12] Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations.
[13] Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high.
[14] Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
[15] Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
[16] All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
[17] For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
[18] All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant.
[19] Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path;
[20] Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[21] If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
[22] Would not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
[23] Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
[24] Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.
[25] Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
[26] For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
[27] Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.
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