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1 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.
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1 We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.
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2 How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out .
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2 With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the peoples and made our fathers flourish.
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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.
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3 It was not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you loved them.
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4 Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
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4 You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.
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5 Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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5 Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.
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6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
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6 I do not trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
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7 But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
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7 but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.
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8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
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8 In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever. "Selah"
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9 But thou hast cast off , and put us to shame ; and goest not forth with our armies.
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9 But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
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10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
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10 You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
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11 Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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11 You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
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12 Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
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12 You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
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13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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13 You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
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14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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14 You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
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15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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15 My disgrace is before me all day long, and my face is covered with shame
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16 For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth ; by reason of the enemy and avenger .
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16 at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
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17 All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
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17 All this happened to us, though we had not forgotten you or been false to your covenant.
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18 Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
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18 Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
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19 Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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19 But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals and covered us over with deep darkness.
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20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
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20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
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21 Shall not God search this out ? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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21 would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
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22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
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22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
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23 Awake , why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise , cast us not off for ever.
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23 Awake, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself ! Do not reject us forever.
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24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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24 Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
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25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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25 We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
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26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
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26 Rise up and help us; redeem us because of your unfailing love.
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