| Berean Study Bible | NET Bible |
| 1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old. | 1For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times. |
| 2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out. | 2You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it. |
| 3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them. | 3For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them. |
| 4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob. | 4You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob's deliverance! |
| 5Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies. | 5By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes! |
| 6For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me. | 6For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword. |
| 7For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame. | 7For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us. |
| 8In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah | 8In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah) |
| 9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies. | 9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies. |
| 10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us. | 10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. |
| 11You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations. | 11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations. |
| 12You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale. | 12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them. |
| 13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us. | 13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. |
| 14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. | 14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt. |
| 15All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face, | 15All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame, |
| 16at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge. | 16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. |
| 17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant. | 17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us. |
| 18Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path. | 18We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands. |
| 19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness. | 19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness. |
| 20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, | 20If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, |
| 21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart? | 21would not God discover it, for he knows one's thoughts? |
| 22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered. | 22Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block. |
| 23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever. | 23Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever! |
| 24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression? | 24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated? |
| 25For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth. | 25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. |
| 26Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion. | 26Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love! |
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