| Holman Christian Standard Bible | NET Bible |
| 1For the choir director. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. God, we have heard with our ears-- our ancestors have told us-- the work You accomplished in their days, in days long ago: | 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. |
| 2to plant them, You drove out the nations with Your hand; to settle them, You crushed the peoples. | 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 they did not take the land by their sword-- their arm did not bring them victory-- but by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, for You were pleased with 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, my God, who ordains victories for Jacob. | 4You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob's deliverance! |
| 5Through You we drive back 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, and my sword does not bring me victory. | 6For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword. |
| 7But You give us victory over our foes and let those who hate us be disgraced. | 7For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us. |
| 8We boast in God all day long; we will praise Your name forever. Selah | 8In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah) |
| 9But You have rejected and humiliated us; You do not march out with our armies. | 9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies. |
| 10You make us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have taken plunder for themselves. | 10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. |
| 11You hand us over to be eaten like sheep and scatter 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; You make no profit from selling them. | 12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them. |
| 13You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors, a source of mockery and ridicule 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 make us a joke among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples. | 14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt. |
| 15My disgrace is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face, | 15All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame, |
| 16because of the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy and avenger. | 16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. |
| 17All this has happened to us, but 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 a haunt of jackals and 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 and spread out our hands to a foreign god, | 20If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, |
| 21wouldn't God have found this out, since He knows the secrets of the heart? | 21would not God discover it, for he knows one's thoughts? |
| 22Because of You we are slain all day long; we are counted 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, LORD! Why are You sleeping? Get up! Don't reject us forever! | 23Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever! |
| 24Why do You hide Yourself and forget our affliction and oppression? | 24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated? |
| 25For we have sunk down to the dust; our bodies cling to the ground. | 25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. |
| 26Rise up! Help us! Redeem us because of Your faithful love. | 26Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love! |
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