Good News Translation GNT
Revised Standard Version RSV
1 With our own ears we have heard it, O God - our ancestors have told us about it, about the great things you did in their time, in the days of long ago:
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To the choirmaster. A Maskil of the Sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what deeds thou didst perform in their days, in the days of old:
2 how you yourself drove out the heathen and established your people in their land; how you punished the other nations and caused your own to prosper.
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thou with thy own hand didst drive out the nations, but them thou didst plant; thou didst afflict the peoples, but them thou didst set free;
3 Your people did not conquer the land with their swords; they did not win it by their own power; it was by your power and your strength, by the assurance of your presence, which showed that you loved them.
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for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm give them victory; but thy right hand, and thy arm, and the light of thy countenance; for thou didst delight in them.
4 You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people,
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Thou art my King and my God, who ordainest victories for Jacob.
5 and by your power we defeat our enemies.
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Through thee we push down our foes; through thy name we tread down our assailants.
6 I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;
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For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.
7 but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us.
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But thou hast saved us from our foes, and hast put to confusion those who hate us.
8 We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever.
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In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to thy name for ever. [Selah]
9 But now you have rejected us and let us be defeated; you no longer march out with our armies.
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Yet thou hast cast us off and abased us, and hast not gone out with our armies.
10 You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.
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Thou hast made us turn back from the foe; and our enemies have gotten spoil.
11 You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.
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Thou hast made us like sheep for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the nations.
12 You sold your own people for a small price as though they had little value.
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Thou hast sold thy people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them.
13 Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.
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Thou hast made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those about us.
14 You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
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Thou hast made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 I am always in disgrace; I am covered with shame
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All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16 from hearing the sneers and insults of my enemies and those who hate me.
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at the words of the taunters and revilers, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has happened to us, even though we have not forgotten you or broken the covenant you made with us.
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All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten thee, or been false to thy covenant.
18 We have not been disloyal to you; we have not disobeyed your commands.
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Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from thy way,
19 Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.
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that thou shouldst have broken us in the place of jackals, and covered us with deep darkness.
20 If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,
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If we had forgotten the name of our God, or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
21 you would surely have discovered it, because you know our secret thoughts.
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would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
22 But it is on your account that we are being killed all the time, that we are treated like sheep to be slaughtered.
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Nay, for thy sake we are slain all the day long, and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don't reject us forever!
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Rouse thyself! Why sleepest thou, O Lord? Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
24 Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!
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Why dost thou hide thy face? Why dost thou forget our affliction and oppression?
25 We fall crushed to the ground; we lie defeated in the dust.
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our body cleaves to the ground.
26 Come to our aid! Because of your constant love save us!
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Rise up, come to our help! Deliver us for the sake of thy steadfast love!
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.