O God, we have heard with our ears, Our afathers have told us The bwork that You did in their days, In the cdays of old.
2You with Your own hand adrove out the nations; Then You bplanted them; You cafflicted the peoples, Then You dspread them abroad.
3For by their own sword they adid not possess the land, And their own arm did not save them, But Your right hand and Your barm and the clight of Your presence, For You dfavored them.
4You are amy King, O God; bCommand 1victories for Jacob.
5Through You we will apush back our adversaries; Through Your name we will btrample down those who rise up against us.
6For I will anot trust in my bow, Nor will my sword save me.
7But You ahave saved us from our adversaries, And You have bput to shame those who hate us.
8In God we have aboasted all day long, And we will bgive thanks to Your name forever. 1Selah.
9Yet You ahave rejected us and brought us to bdishonor, And cdo not go out with our armies.
10You cause us to aturn back from the adversary; And those who hate us bhave taken spoil for themselves.
11You give us as asheep 1to be eaten And have bscattered us among the nations.
12You asell Your people 1cheaply, And have not 2profited by their sale.
13You make us a areproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a bderision to those around us.
14You make us aa byword among the nations, A 1 blaughingstock among the peoples.
15All day long my dishonor is before me And 1my ahumiliation has overwhelmed me,
16Because of the voice of him who areproaches and reviles, Because of the presence of the benemy and the avenger.
17All this has come upon us, but we have anot forgotten You, And we have not bdealt falsely with Your covenant.
18Our heart has not aturned back, And our steps bhave not deviated from Your way,
19Yet You have acrushed us in a place of bjackals And covered us with cthe shadow of death.
20If we had aforgotten the name of our God Or extended our 1hands to ba strange god,
21Would not God afind this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22But afor Your sake we are killed all day long; We are considered as bsheep to be slaughtered.
23aArouse Yourself, why bdo You sleep, O Lord? Awake, cdo not reject us forever.
24Why do You ahide Your face And bforget our affliction and our oppression?
25For our asoul has sunk down into the dust; Our body cleaves to the earth.
26aRise up, be our help, And bredeem us for the sake of Your lovingkindness.