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[1] WE have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us what work thou hast wrought in their days, in the times of old;
[2] How thou didst destroy the Gentiles with thy hand, and established thy people; how thou didst vex the kingdoms, and strengthened thy people.
[3] For they inherited not the land by their sword, neither did their own arm save them; but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou wast pleased with them.
[4] Thou art my King, O God; for thou commandest deliverances for Jacob.
[5] Through thee will we pierce our enemies; through thy name will we tread them under that hate us.
[6] For we trust not in our bows; neither on our armour to save us.
[7] But thou hast saved us from those who hate us, and hast put to shame our enemies.
[8] We glorify thee, O God, all the day long, and praise thy name for ever.
[9] But now thou hast forsaken us and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies:
[10] But thou makest us to be defeated; and our enemies have plundered us.
[11] Thou hast sold us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the Gentiles.
[12] Thou hast sold thy people as a bargain, and dost not profit by their exchange.
[13] Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
[14] Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the nations.
[15] All the day long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
[16] Because of the voice of him who reproaches and blasphemes; and because of the enemy that avenges.
[17] All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
[18] We have not turned back, neither have we swerved our steps from thy way;
[19] For thou hast humbled us a second time in the land, and covered us with the shadow of death.
[20] And yet we have not forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to stranger gods;
[21] God will look into this thing, for he knows the secrets of the heart.
[22] Yea, for thy sake are we killed every day; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
[23] Awake and sleep not, O LORD; remember us and forsake us not.
[24] Turn not thy face from us, and forget not our humiliation and our oppression;
[25] For our soul is humbled down to the dust; our body touches the earth.
[26] Arise to help us; redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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