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1 God, we have heard with our ears;
our fathers have told us the work you did in their days, in days of old.
2 With your hand you drove out nations and planted our fathers;
you afflicted peoples and let our fathers spread.
3 For they did not possess the land by their sword, nor did their arm save them, but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you delighted in them.
4 You are my King, God;
command deliverance for Jacob.
5 Through you we push back our foes;
through your name we trample those who rise against us.
6 For I do not trust in my bow, and my sword cannot save me.
7 But you have saved us from our foes and put those who hate us to shame.
8 In God we boast all day, and we will praise your name forever. Selah.
9 Yet you have rejected and disgraced us;
you no longer go out with our armies.
10 You make us turn back before the foe, and those who hate us plunder for themselves.
11 You give us up like sheep for food and scatter us among the nations.
12 You sell your people for next to nothing and gain no wealth from their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a scorn to those around us.
14 You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 All day my disgrace is before me, and shame covers my face,
16 at the voice of the one who taunts and reviles, at the presence of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you or dealt falsely with your covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps strayed from your path,
19 though you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 would not God discover this?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 Yet for your sake we are killed all day;
we are counted as sheep for slaughter.
23 Awake! Why do you sleep, Lord?
Rouse yourself;
do not reject us forever!
24 Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
our belly clings to the ground.
26 Rise up to help us;
redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.