1 GLT O God, we have listened with our ears, our fathers have told us the work you did in their days, in the days 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 GLT You drove out the nations{ by} your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you sent them. BSB BSB: With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
3 GLT For with their sword they did not possess the land, and their arm did not save them, but your right hand, and your arm, and the light of your face, because 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 GLT You are my king, O God. Appoint salvation for Jacob. BSB BSB: You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
5 GLT Through you we will gore our adversaries, by your name we will trample those who rise up against us. BSB BSB: Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
6 GLT For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword will not save me. BSB BSB: For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
7 GLT For you have saved us from our adversaries, and have put to shame those who hate us. BSB BSB: For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
8 GLT In God we have boasted every day, and we will praise your name forever. Selah BSB BSB: In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
9 GLT Yet, you have rejected and humiliated us, and you do not go out with our armies. BSB BSB: But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
10 GLT You made us turn back from the adversary, and those who hate us plunder for themselves. BSB BSB: You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
11 GLT You have appoint us{ to be} like sheep for food, and you have scattered us among the nations. BSB BSB: You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
12 GLT You have sold your people for what is not valuable, you have not increased their price. BSB BSB: You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
13 GLT You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a contempt and a scorn to those around us. BSB BSB: You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
14 GLT You made us an insult among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples. BSB BSB: You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
15 GLT All day my dishonor is 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 GLT from of the voice of reproaching and insulting, and from the face of an enemy and a vengeful one. BSB BSB: at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
17 GLT All of this has come{ against} us, and we have not forgotten you, and we have not dealt falsely with your covenant. BSB BSB: All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
18 GLT Our heart has not turned back, our steps bent from your way. BSB BSB: Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19 GLT But you have crushed us in the place of jackals, and you have covered over us with extreme darkness. BSB BSB: But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
20 GLT If we had forgotten the name of our God and spread out our hands to a foreign god, BSB BSB: If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21 GLT would God not have discovered this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. BSB BSB: would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22 GLT Indeed, because of you we are killed all the day, we are considered{ to be} like sheep of slaughtering. BSB BSB: Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
23 GLT Awake! Why do you sleep, Lord? Arise! Do not reject{ us} forever! BSB BSB: Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24 GLT Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and our oppression? BSB BSB: Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
25 GLT For our life has sunk down into the dust, our belly has clung to the earth. BSB BSB: For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
26 GLT Rise up{ as) our helper and redeem us because of your covenant faithfulness. BSB BSB: Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.
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