Psalm 4444PsalmsBook 2Young’s Literal Translation

Young’s Literal TranslationBerean Standard Bible

1. Redeem Us, O God

   (Romans 8:35–39)

2. 1YLTTo the Overseer. — By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.BSBBSB: 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.
3. 2YLTThou, with Thy hand, nations hast dispossessed. And Thou dost plant them. Thou afflictest peoples, and sendest them away.BSBBSB: With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
4. 3YLTFor, not by their sword Possessed they the land, And their arm gave not salvation to them, But Thy right hand, and Thine arm, And the light of Thy countenance, Because Thou hadst accepted them.BSBBSB: 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.
5. 4YLTThou art He, my king, O God, Command the deliverances of Jacob.BSBBSB: You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
6. 5YLTBy Thee our adversaries we do push, By Thy name tread down our withstanders,BSBBSB: Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
7. 6YLTFor, not in my bow do I trust, And my sword doth not save me.BSBBSB: For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
8. 7YLTFor Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And those hating us Thou hast put to shame.BSBBSB: For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
9. 8YLTIn God we have boasted all the day, And Thy name to the age we thank. Selah.BSBBSB: In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
10. 9YLTIn anger Thou hast cast off and causest us to blush, And goest not forth with our hosts.BSBBSB: But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
11. 10YLTThou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.BSBBSB: You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
12. 11YLTThou makest us food like sheep, And among nations Thou hast scattered us.BSBBSB: You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
13. 12YLTThou sellest Thy people — without wealth, And hast not become great by their price.BSBBSB: You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
14. 13YLTThou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a reproach to our surrounders.BSBBSB: You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
15. 14YLTThou makest us a simile among nations, A shaking of the head among peoples.BSBBSB: You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock among the peoples.
16. 15YLTAll the day my confusion is before me, And the shame of my face hath covered me.BSBBSB: All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
17. 16YLTBecause of the voice of a reproacher and reviler, Because of an enemy and a self-avenger.BSBBSB: at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
18. 17YLTAll this met us, and we did not forget Thee, Nor have we dealt falsely in Thy covenant.BSBBSB: All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
19. 18YLTWe turn not backward our heart, Nor turn aside doth our step from Thy path.BSBBSB: Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
20. 19YLTBut Thou hast smitten us in a place of dragons, And dost cover us over with death-shade.BSBBSB: But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals; You have covered us with deepest darkness.
21. 20YLTIf we have forgotten the name of our God, And spread our hands to a strange God,BSBBSB: If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
22. 21YLTDoth not God search out this? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.BSBBSB: would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
23. 22YLTSurely, for Thy sake we have been slain all the day, Reckoned as sheep of the slaughter.BSBBSB: Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.
24. 23YLTStir up — why dost Thou sleep, O Lord? Awake, cast us not off for ever.BSBBSB: Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
25. 24YLTWhy Thy face hidest Thou? Thou forgettest our afflictions and our oppression,BSBBSB: Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
26. 25YLTFor bowed to the dust hath our soul, Cleaved to the earth hath our belly.BSBBSB: For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
27. 26YLTArise, a help to us, And ransom us for thy kindness' sake.BSBBSB: Rise up; be our help! Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.

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