1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work which You did in their days, in the days of old. 2You drove out the nations with Your hand, and planted them; You brought evil upon peoples and cast them out. 3For they did not take the land into possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but it was Your right hand, and Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them. 4You are my king, O God; command victories for Jacob. 5Through You we will push our enemies; through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. 6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword deliver me. 7But You have delivered us from our enemies, and have put to shame those who hated us. 8In God we have boasted all day long, and praise Your name forever. Selah. 9But You have cast us off and put us to shame, and You do not go forth with our armies. 10You make us turn back from the enemy; and those who hate us have plundered for themselves. 11You have given us up like sheep for food, and have scattered us among the nations. 12You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased wealth by their price. 13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are round about us. 14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. 15My disgrace is daily before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, 16because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles; before the enemy and avenger. 17All this has come upon us; yet we have not forgotten You, nor dealt falsely with Your Covenant. 18Our heart is not turned back, nor have our steps turned aside from Your way, 19though You have crushed us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death. 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god, 21shall not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. 22Yet, for Your sake we are killed all day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. 23Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. 24Why do You hide Your face, and forget our affliction and distress? 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the earth. 26Arise for our help, and redeem us through Your mercy!