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1 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.
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We have heard it with our ears, O God; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.
2 Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
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With your hand you drove out the nations and planted our ancestors; you crushed the peoples and made our ancestors flourish.
3 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.
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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.
4 Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
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You are my King and my God, who decrees victories for Jacob.
5 By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
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Through you we push back our enemies; through your name we trample our foes.
6 For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
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I put no trust in my bow, my sword does not bring me victory;
7 For Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.
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but you give us victory over our enemies, you put our adversaries to shame.
8 In God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.
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In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.
9 In anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.
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But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
10 Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
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You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
11 Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
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You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
12 Thou sellest Thy people -- without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
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You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
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You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
14 Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
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You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
15 All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
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I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame
16 Because of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.
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at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
17 All this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
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All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
18 We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
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Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
19 But Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.
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But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.
20 If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
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If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
22 Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
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Yet for your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 Stir up -- why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.
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Awake, Lord! Why do you sleep? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever.
24 Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
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Why do you hide your face and forget our misery and oppression?
25 For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
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We are brought down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground.
26 Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.
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Rise up and help us; rescue us because of your unfailing love.
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