1 To 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.

<>O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, <>our fathers have told us

2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

<>plantedst them, <>them, <>thou didst afflict the people, <>afflict

3 For 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 favour unto them.

<>v. 3, <>right hand, <>and thine arm, <>the light of thy countenance, <>thou hadst a favour unto them

4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

<>Jacob

5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

<>v. 5, <>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.

<>save me

7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

<>thou hast saved us from our enemies

8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

<>In God we boast

9 But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

<>armies

10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

<>Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat, <>meat

12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

<>nought

13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

<>scorn, <>derision

14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

<>byword

15 My confusion is continually 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 avenger.

<>him that reproacheth, <>the enemy and avenger

17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

<>v. 17

18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

<>vv. 18-19, <>turned back

19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

<>vv. 18-19, <>the shadow of death, <>death

20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

<>vv. 20-21

21 Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

<>vv. 20-21, <>Shall not God search this out?, <>God … knoweth the secrets of the heart., <>search

22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

<>v. 22

23 Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

<>Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?

24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

<>Wherefore hidest thou thy face

25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

<>v. 25, <>cleaveth

26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.

<>redeem us, <>thy mercies