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For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil. |
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We have heard with our ears, O YAHUVEH, Our fathers have told us, What
work thou didst in their days, In the days of old. |
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Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand; But them thou didst
plant: Thou didst afflict the peoples; But them thou didst spread abroad. |
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For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword, Neither did
their own arm save them; But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of
thy countenance, Because thou wast favorable unto them. |
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Thou art my King, O YAHUVEH: Command deliverance for Jacob. |
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Through thee will we push down our adversaries: Through thy name will we
tread them under that rise up against us. |
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For I will not trust in my bow, Neither shall my sword save me. |
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But thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And hast put them to shame
that hate us. |
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In YAHUVEH have we made our boast all the day long, And we will give
thanks unto thy name for ever. Selah |
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But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor, And
goest not forth with our hosts. |
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Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us
take spoil for themselves. |
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Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food, And hast
scattered us among the nations. |
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Thou sellest thy people for nought, And hast not increased thy wealth
by their price. |
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Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors, A scoffing and a derision to
them that are round about us. |
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Thou makest us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among
the peoples. |
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All the day long is my dishonor before me, And the shame of my face hath
covered me, |
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For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth, By reason of the
enemy and the avenger. |
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All this is come upon us; Yet have we not forgotten thee, Neither have
we dealt falsely in thy covenant. |
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Our heart is not turned back, Neither have our steps declined from thy
way, |
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That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us
with the shadow of death. |
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If we have forgotten the name of our YAHUVEH, Or spread forth our hands
to a strange deity; |
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Will not YAHUVEH search this out? For he knoweth the secrets of the
heart. |
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Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as
sheep for the slaughter. |
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Awake, why sleepest thou, O Master? Arise, cast us not off for
ever. |
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Wherefore hidest thou thy face, And forgettest our affliction and our
oppression? |
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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: Our body cleaveth unto the
earth. |
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Rise up for our help, And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake. |