✧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. ✧2[How] thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; [how] thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. ✧3For 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. ✧4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. ✧5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. ✧6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. ✧7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. ✧8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. ✧9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. ✧10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. ✧11Thou hast given us like sheep [appointed] for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. ✧12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase [thy wealth] by their price. ✧13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. ✧14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. ✧15My confusion [is] continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, ✧16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. ✧17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. ✧18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; ✧19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. ✧20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; ✧21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. ✧22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. ✧23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast [us] not off for ever. ✧24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, [and] forgettest our affliction and our oppression? ✧25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. ✧26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies’ sake.