Redeem Us, O God (Romans 8:35–39)
1 UDB God, we ourselves have heard what our parents and grandparents told us. They told us about the miracles that you performed long ago. 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 UDB They told us how you expelled the ungodly people and enabled us to live in their land. They told us that you punished those ungodly people and enabled your own people to possess the land. BSB BSB: With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
3 UDB It was not by using their own swords that they conquered the people that lived in that land, and it was not by their own power that they were victorious; it was only by your power that they did those things; and they were sure that you were with them, showing that you were pleased with 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 UDB You are my king and my God; Make us, your people, able to defeat our enemies. BSB BSB: You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
5 UDB It is by your power that we knock our enemies down and tramp on them. BSB BSB: Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
6 UDB I do not trust that I can save myself by using my bow and arrows and my sword. BSB BSB: For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
7 UDB No, it is you who have rescued us from our enemies; it is you who have caused those who hate us to become ashamed because they were defeated. BSB BSB: For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
8 UDB We have always been proud about what God has done for us, and we will thank him forever. BSB BSB: In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
9 UDB But now you have rejected us and caused us to be disgraced; when our armies march out to fight a battle, you no longer go with them. BSB BSB: But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
10 UDB You have caused us to run away from our enemies, with the result that they captured the things that belonged to us. BSB BSB: You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
11 UDB You have allowed us to become like sheep that were ready to be slaughtered; you scattered us far away among other nations. BSB BSB: You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
12 UDB It is as though you sold us, your people, to our enemies for a very small price, although you did not gain any profit from selling us! BSB BSB: You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
13 UDB People who live in nations near us make fun of us; they laugh at us and deride us. BSB BSB: You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
14 UDB They make jokes using the name of our country; they shake their heads to indicate that they despise us. BSB BSB: You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 UDB All day I am disgraced; from seeing my face, people know that I am ashamed. BSB BSB: All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16 UDB I hear what those who sneer at me and revile me say; I am ashamed in front of my enemies and those who want to harm me. BSB BSB: at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
17 UDB All these things have happened to us even though we have not forgotten you, and we are not the ones who disobeyed the covenant you made with our ancestors. BSB BSB: All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
18 UDB We have not stopped being loyal to you, and we have not stopped doing what you want us to do. BSB BSB: Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19 UDB But it is as though you have allowed us to be helpless among wild animals and you have abandoned us in a deep, dark ravine. BSB BSB: But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
20 UDB If we had forgotten to worship our God, or if we had spread out our hands to worship a foreign god, BSB BSB: If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 UDB you certainly would have known that because you know even what we secretly think. BSB BSB: would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22 UDB But it is because we belong to you that our enemies are constantly killing us. They act toward us as though we were only sheep that they were going to slaughter. BSB BSB: Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 UDB So Yahweh, arise! Why are you asleep? Get up! Do not reject us forever! BSB BSB: Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24 UDB Why are you not looking at us? Why are you forgetting that we are suffering, that our enemies are oppressing us? BSB BSB: Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
25 UDB We are in complete panic; we cannot do anything; we are as good as dead. BSB BSB: For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
26 UDB Do something! Come and help us! Rescue us, because you love us as you promised to do. BSB BSB: Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
Select verses for actions: Enter goes to them and Escape comes back.