Redeem Us, O God (Romans 8:35–39)
1 AKJV To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old. BSB BSB: For 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.
2 AKJV How you did drive out the heathen with your hand, and planted them; how you did afflict the people, and cast them out. BSB BSB: With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
3 AKJV For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your countenance, because you had a favor to them. BSB BSB: For 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.
4 AKJV You are my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob. BSB BSB: You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
5 AKJV Through you will we push down our enemies: through your name will we tread them under that rise up against us. BSB BSB: Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
6 AKJV For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me. BSB BSB: For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
7 AKJV But you have saved us from our enemies, and have put them to shame that hated us. BSB BSB: For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
8 AKJV In God we boast all the day long, and praise your name for ever. Selah. BSB BSB: In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
9 AKJV But you have cast off, and put us to shame; and go not forth with our armies. BSB BSB: But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
10 AKJV You make us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves. BSB BSB: You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
11 AKJV You have given us like sheep appointed for meat; and have scattered us among the heathen. BSB BSB: You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
12 AKJV You sell your people for nothing, and do not increase your wealth by their price. BSB BSB: You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
13 AKJV You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us. BSB BSB: You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
14 AKJV You make us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people. BSB BSB: You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 AKJV My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me, BSB BSB: All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16 AKJV For the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes; by reason of the enemy and avenger. BSB BSB: at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
17 AKJV All this is come on us; yet have we not forgotten you, neither have we dealt falsely in your covenant. BSB BSB: All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
18 AKJV Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from your way; BSB BSB: Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19 AKJV Though you have sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death. BSB BSB: But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
20 AKJV If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; BSB BSB: If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 AKJV Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart. BSB BSB: would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22 AKJV Yes, for your sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter. BSB BSB: Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 AKJV Awake, why sleep you, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever. BSB BSB: Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24 AKJV Why hide you your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression? BSB BSB: Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
25 AKJV For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly sticks to the earth. BSB BSB: For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
26 AKJV Arise for our help, and redeem us for your mercies’ sake. BSB BSB: Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
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