| NET Bible | King James Bible |
| 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. | 1To 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. |
| 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. | 2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out. |
| 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. | 3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them. |
| 4You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob's deliverance! | 4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. |
| 5By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes! | 5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us. |
| 6For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword. | 6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. |
| 7For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us. | 7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us. |
| 8In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah) | 8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah. |
| 9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies. | 9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies. |
| 10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. | 10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. |
| 11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations. | 11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen. |
| 12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them. | 12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price. |
| 13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. | 13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. |
| 14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt. | 14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. |
| 15All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame, | 15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me, |
| 16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. | 16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger. |
| 17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us. | 17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
| 18We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands. | 18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way; |
| 19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness. | 19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. |
| 20If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, | 20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; |
| 21would not God discover it, for he knows one's thoughts? | 21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart. |
| 22Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block. | 22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. |
| 23Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever! | 23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. |
| 24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated? | 24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression? |
| 25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. | 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth. |
| 26Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love! | 26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake. |
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