New Living Translation NLT
Young's Literal Translation YLT
1 O God, we have heard it with our own ears— our ancestors have told us of all you did in their day, in days long ago:
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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 pagan nations by your power and gave all the land to our ancestors. You crushed their enemies and set our ancestors free.
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Thou, [with] Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.
3 They did not conquer the land with their swords; it was not their own strong arm that gave them victory. It was your right hand and strong arm and the blinding light from your face that helped them, for you loved 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 and my God. You command victories for Israel.
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Thou [art] He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.
5 Only by your power can we push back our enemies; only in your name can we trample our foes.
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By Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,
6 I do not trust in my bow; I do not count on my sword to save me.
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For, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.
7 You are the one who gives us victory over our enemies; you disgrace those 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 O God, we give glory to you all day long and constantly praise your name. Interlude
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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 have tossed us aside in dishonor. You no longer lead our armies to battle.
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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 retreat from our enemies and allow those who hate us to plunder our land.
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Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
11 You have butchered us like sheep and scattered us among the nations.
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Thou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.
12 You sold your precious people for a pittance, making nothing on the sale.
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Thou sellest Thy people -- without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.
13 You let our neighbors mock us. We are an object of scorn and derision to those around us.
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.
14 You have made us the butt of their jokes; they shake their heads at us in scorn.
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Thou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.
15 We can’t escape the constant humiliation; shame is written across our faces.
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All the day my confusion [is] before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.
16 All we hear are the taunts of our mockers. All we see are our vengeful enemies.
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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 happened though we have not forgotten you. We have not violated 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 hearts have not deserted you. We have not strayed from your path.
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We turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.
19 Yet you have crushed us in the jackal’s desert home. You have covered us with darkness and 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 had forgotten the name of our God or spread our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
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If we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,
21 God would surely have known it, for he knows the secrets of every heart.
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Doth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22 But for your sake we are killed every day; we are being slaughtered like sheep.
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Surely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.
23 Wake up, O Lord! Why do you sleep? Get up! Do not 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 look the other way? Why do you ignore our suffering and oppression?
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Why Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,
25 We collapse in the dust, lying face down in the dirt.
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For bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.
26 Rise up! Help us! Ransom us because of your unfailing love.
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Arise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.