Third Millennium Bible TMB
GOD'S WORD Translation GW
1 <<To the chief musician: For the sons of Korah. Maschil.>> 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:
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O God, we have heard it with our own ears. Our ancestors have told us about the miracle you performed in their day, in days long ago.
2 how Thou didst drive out the heathen with Thy hand, and planted them; how Thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
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By your power you forced nations [out of the land], but you planted our ancestors [there]. You shattered many groups of people, but you set our ancestors free.
3 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them, but by Thy right hand and Thine arm and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou hadst favor unto them.
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It was not with their swords that they took possession of the land. They did not gain victory with their own strength. It was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your presence [that did it], because you were pleased with them.
4 Thou art my King, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.
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You alone are my king, O God. You won those victories for Jacob.
5 Through Thee will we push down our enemies; through Thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
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With you we can walk over our enemies. With your name we can trample those who attack us.
6 For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me;
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I do not rely on my bow, and my sword will never save me.
7 but Thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
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But you saved us from our enemies. You put to shame those who hate us.
8 In God we boast all the day long, and praise Thy name for ever. Selah
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All day long we praise our God. We give thanks to you forever. Selah
9 But Thou hast cast us off and put us to shame, and goest not forth with our armies.
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But now you have rejected and disgraced us. You do not even go along with our armies.
10 Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy, and they that hate us despoil us for themselves.
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You make us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us rob us at will.
11 Thou hast given us up like sheep appointed for slaughter, and hast scattered us among the heathen.
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You hand us over to be butchered like sheep and scatter us among the nations.
12 Thou sellest Thy people for nought, and dost not increase Thy wealth by their price.
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You sell your people for almost nothing, and at that price you have gained nothing.
13 Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
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You made us a disgrace to our neighbors and an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.
14 Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
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You made our [defeat] a proverb among the nations so that people shake their heads at us.
15 My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
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All day long my disgrace is in front of me. Shame covers my face
16 for the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth by reason of the enemy and avenger.
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because of the words of those who insult and slander us, because of the presence of the enemy and the avenger.
17 All this has come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.
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Although all of this happened to us, we never forgot you. We never ignored your promise.
18 Our heart has not turned back, neither have our steps turned from Thy way,
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Our hearts never turned away. Our feet never left your path.
19 though Thou hast sorely broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
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Yet, you crushed us in a place for jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.
20 If we had forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
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If we forgot the name of our God or stretched out our hands to pray to another god,
21 shall not God search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
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wouldn't God find out, since he knows the secrets in our hearts?
22 Yea, for Thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Indeed, we are being killed all day long because of you. We are thought of as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 Awake! Why sleepest Thou, O Lord? Arise! Cast us not off for ever.
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Wake up! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject us forever!
24 Why hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
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Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our suffering and misery?
25 For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
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Our souls are bowing in the dust. Our bodies cling to the ground.
26 Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercies' sake.
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Arise! Help us! Rescue us because of your mercy!
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