The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
King James Version KJV
1 For the leader. By the descendants of Korach. A maskil: God, we heard it with our ears; our fathers told us about it -a deed which you did in their days, back in days of old.
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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 With your hand you drove out nations to plant them in [the land], you crushed peoples to make room for them.
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How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3 For not by their own swords did they conquer the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; rather, it was your right hand, your arm and the light of your face; because you favored them.
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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.
4 God, you are my king; command complete victory for Ya'akov.
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Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5 Through you we pushed away our foes, through your name we trampled down our assailants.
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Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6 For I don't rely on my bow, nor can my sword give me victory.
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For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7 No, you saved us from our adversaries; you put to shame those who hate us.
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But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8 We will boast in our God all day and give thanks to your name forever. (Selah)
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In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9 Yet now you have thrust us aside and disgraced us; you don't march out with our armies.
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But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10 You make us retreat from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder us at will.
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Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11 You have handed us over like sheep to be eaten and scattered us among the nations.
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Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12 You sell your people for a pittance, you don't even profit on the sale.
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Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13 You make us an object for our neighbors to mock, one of scorn and derision to those around us.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14 You make us a byword among the nations; the peoples jeer at us, shaking their heads.
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Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15 All day long my disgrace is on my mind, and shame has covered my face
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My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16 at the sound of those who revile and insult, at the sight of the enemy bent on revenge.
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17 Though all this came on us, we did not forget you; we have not been false to your covenant;
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All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18 Our hearts have not turned back, and our steps did not turn away from your path,
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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19 though you pressed us into a lair of jackals and covered us with death-dark gloom.
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Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21 wouldn't God have discovered this, since he knows the secrets of the heart?
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Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 For your sake we are put to death all day long, we are considered sheep to be slaughtered.
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake up, Adonai! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don't thrust us off forever.
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24 Why are you turning your face away, forgetting our pain and misery?
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25 For we are lying flat in the dust, our bodies cling to the ground.
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26 Get up, and come to help us! For the sake of your grace, redeem us!
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Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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