Good News Translation GNT
World English Bible WEB
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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<<For the Chief Musician. By the sons of Korah. A contemplative psalm.>> We have heard with our ears, God; Our fathers have told us, What work you did 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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You drove out the nations with your hand, But you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, But you spread them abroad.
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 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.
4 You are my king and my God; you give victory to your people,
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You are my King, God. Command victories for Jacob!
5 and by your power we defeat our enemies.
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Through you, will we push down our adversaries. Through your name, will we tread them under who rise up against us.
6 I do not trust in my bow or in my sword to save me;
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For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me.
7 but you have saved us from our enemies and defeated those who hate us.
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But you have saved us from our adversaries, And have put them to shame who hate us.
8 We will always praise you and give thanks to you forever.
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In God have we made our boast all day long, We will give thanks to your name forever. 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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But now you rejected us, and brought us to dishonor, And don't go out with our armies.
10 You made us run from our enemies, and they took for themselves what was ours.
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You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11 You allowed us to be slaughtered like sheep; you scattered us in foreign countries.
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You have made us like sheep for food, And have 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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You sell your people for nothing, And have gained nothing from their sale.
13 Our neighbors see what you did to us, and they mock us and laugh at us.
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You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
14 You have made us a joke among the nations; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
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You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples.
15 I am always in disgrace; I am covered with shame
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All day long is my dishonor before me, And shame covers my face,
16 from hearing the sneers and insults of my enemies and those who hate me.
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At the taunt of one who reproaches and reviles, Because 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 on us, Yet have we not forgotten you, Neither have we been false to your 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, Neither have our steps declined from your way,
19 Yet you left us helpless among wild animals; you abandoned us in deepest darkness.
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That you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had stopped worshiping our God and prayed to a foreign god,
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If we have 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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Won't God search this out? 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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Yes, for your sake are we killed all day long. We are regarded as sheep for the slaughter.
23 Wake up, Lord! Why are you asleep? Rouse yourself! Don't reject us forever!
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Wake up! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Don't reject us forever.
24 Why are you hiding from us? Don't forget our suffering and trouble!
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Why do you hide your face, And forget our affliction and our 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 earth.
26 Come to our aid! Because of your constant love save us!
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Rise up to help us. Redeem us for your lovingkindness' sake.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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