Hebrew Names Version HNV
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 <<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korach. A maskil.>> We have heard with our ears, God; Our fathers have told us, What work you did in their days, In the days of old.
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To the Overseer. -- By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.
2 You drove out the nations with your hand, But you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, But you spread them abroad.
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Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
3 For they didn't get the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did their own arm save them; But your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, Because you were favorable to them.
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For, not by their sword Possessed they the land, And their arm gave not salvation to them, But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, And the light of Thy countenance, Because Thou hadst accepted them.
4 You are my King, God. Command victories for Ya`akov!
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Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
5 Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
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By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
6 For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
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For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
7 But you have saved us from our adversaries, And have put them to shame who hate us.
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For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.
8 In God have we made our boast all day long, We will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.
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In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.
9 But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go out with our armies.
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In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
10 You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
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Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
11 You have made us like sheep for food, And have scattered us among the nations.
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Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
12 You sell your people for nothing, And have gained nothing from their sale.
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Thou sellest Thy people -- without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
13 You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
14 You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
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Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
15 All day long is my dishonor before me, And shame covers my face,
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All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
16 At the taunt of one who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the avenger.
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Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
17 All this has come on us, Yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your covenant.
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All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
18 Our heart has not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from your way,
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We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
19 That you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
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But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
21 Won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
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Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 Yes, for your sake are we killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
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Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
23 Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
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Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
24 Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?
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Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body cleaves to the eretz.
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For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
26 Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your lovingkindness' sake.
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Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.
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