| 1 | For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of 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 days of old. |
| 2 | Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad. |
| 3 | For they gat 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 wast favorable unto them. |
| 4 | Thou art my King, O God: Command deliverance for Jacob. |
| 5 | Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| 6 | For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me. |
| 7 | But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame that hate us. |
| 8 | In God have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah |
| 9 | But now thou hast cast [us] off, and brought us to dishonor, And goest not forth with our hosts. |
| 10 | Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves. |
| 11 | Thou hast made us like sheep [appointed] for food, And hast scattered us among the nations. |
| 12 | Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased [thy wealth] by their price. |
| 13 | Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us. |
| 14 | Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples. |
| 15 | All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me, |
| 16 | For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the enemy and the avenger. |
| 17 | All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| 18 | Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy way, |
| 19 | That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. |
| 20 | If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god; |
| 21 | Will not God search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
| 22 | Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| 23 | Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast [us] not off for ever. |
| 24 | Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| 25 | For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the earth. |
| 26 | Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake. |