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  • For the choir director: A psalma of the descendants of Korah.

    O God, we have heard it with our own ears —
    our ancestors have told us
    of all you did in their day,
    in days long ago:
  • Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor

    To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation[a] of the sons of Korah.

    We have heard with our ears, O God,
    Our fathers have told us,
    The deeds You did in their days,
    In days of old:
  • You drove out the pagan nations by your power
    and gave all the land to our ancestors.
    You crushed their enemies
    and set our ancestors free.
  • You drove out the [b]nations with Your hand,
    But them You planted;
    You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
  • They did not conquer the land with their swords;
    it was not their own strong arm that gave them victory.
    It was your right hand and strong arm
    and the blinding light from your face that helped them,
    for you loved them.
  • For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
    Nor did their own arm save them;
    But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
    Because You favored them.
  • You are my King and my God.
    You command victories for Israel.b
  • You are my King, [c]O God;
    [d]Command victories for Jacob.
  • Only by your power can we push back our enemies;
    only in your name can we trample our foes.
  • Through You we will push down our enemies;
    Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
  • I do not trust in my bow;
    I do not count on my sword to save me.
  • For I will not trust in my bow,
    Nor shall my sword save me.
  • You are the one who gives us victory over our enemies;
    you disgrace those who hate us.
  • But You have saved us from our enemies,
    And have put to shame those who hated us.
  • O God, we give glory to you all day long
    and constantly praise your name.
    Interlude
  • In God we boast all day long,
    And praise Your name forever. Selah
  • But now you have tossed us aside in dishonor.
    You no longer lead our armies to battle.
  • But You have cast us off and put us to shame,
    And You do not go out with our armies.
  • You make us retreat from our enemies
    and allow those who hate us to plunder our land.
  • You make us turn back from the enemy,
    And those who hate us have taken [e]spoil for themselves.
  • You have butchered us like sheep
    and scattered us among the nations.
  • You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
    And have scattered us among the nations.
  • You sold your precious people for a pittance,
    making nothing on the sale.
  • You sell Your people for next to nothing,
    And are not enriched by selling them.
  • You let our neighbors mock us.
    We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
  • You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
    A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
  • You have made us the butt of their jokes;
    they shake their heads at us in scorn.
  • You make us a byword among the nations,
    A shaking of the head among the peoples.
  • We can’t escape the constant humiliation;
    shame is written across our faces.
  • My dishonor is continually before me,
    And the shame of my face has covered me,
  • All we hear are the taunts of our mockers.
    All we see are our vengeful enemies.
  • Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
    Because of the enemy and the avenger.
  • All this has happened though we have not forgotten you.
    We have not violated your covenant.
  • All this has come upon us;
    But we have not forgotten You,
    Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
  • Our hearts have not deserted you.
    We have not strayed from your path.
  • Our heart has not turned back,
    Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
  • Yet you have crushed us in the jackal’s desert home.
    You have covered us with darkness and death.
  • But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals,
    And covered us with the shadow of death.
  • If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
  • If we had forgotten the name of our God,
    Or stretched[f] out our hands to a foreign god,
  • God would surely have known it,
    for he knows the secrets of every heart.
  • Would not God search this out?
    For He knows the secrets of the heart.
  • But for your sake we are killed every day;
    we are being slaughtered like sheep.
  • Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
    We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
  • Wake up, O Lord! Why do you sleep?
    Get up! Do not reject us forever.
  • Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
    Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
  • Why do you look the other way?
    Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
  • Why do You hide Your face,
    And forget our affliction and our oppression?
  • We collapse in the dust,
    lying face down in the dirt.
  • For our soul is bowed down to the [g]dust;
    Our body clings to the ground.
  • Rise up! Help us!
    Ransom us because of your unfailing love.
  • Arise for our help,
    And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.

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