1 O God! with our own ears, have we heard, Our fathers, have recounted to us,—The work thou didst work, In their day, In the days of aforetime: 2Thou thyself, with thine own hand—Didst dispossess, nations, and didst plant them, Didst break peoples in pieces, and didst spread them out: 3For, not by their own sword, gat they possession of the land, Nor did, their own arm, win victory for them,—But thine own right hand, and thine own arm, and the light of thy face, Because thou hadst accepted them. 4Thou thyself, art my king, O God, Command thou the victories of Jacob. 5By thee, will we thrust at, our adversaries, In thy Name, will we tread down our assailants; 6For, not in my bow, will I trust, Nor shall, my sword, give me victory; 7For thou hast saved us from our adversaries, And, them who hated us, hast thou put to shame. 8In God, have we boasted all the day, And, thy Name—unto times age-abiding, will we praise. [Selah.]

9But nay thou hast rejected, and confounded us, And wilt not go forth with our hosts; 10Thou sufferest us to turn back from the adversary, And, they who hate us, have plundered at will: 11Thou dost give us up like sheep to be devoured, And, amongst the nations, hast thou scattered us. 12Thou dost sell thy people for, no-value, And hast not made increase by their price. 13Thou dost make us, A reproach to our neighbours, A mockery and a derision to them who are round about us: 14Thou dost make us, A by-word among the nations,—A shaking of the head among the peoples. 15All the day, is my confusion before me, And, the shame of my face, hath covered me: 16At the voice of him who reproacheth and revileth, At the face of the foe and avenger.

17All this, hath come upon us, Yet had we not forgotten thee, Neither had we dealt falsely with thy covenant; 18Our heart had not drawn back, Nor had our goings swerved from thy path; 19That thou shouldst have crushed us down in the place of wild dogs, And covered us over with a deadly shadow. 20If we had forgotten the Name of our God, And had spread forth our hands unto the GOD of the foreigner, 21Would not, God, have searched into this, Seeing that, he, knoweth the secrets of the heart? 22Surely, for thy sake, have we been slain all the day, We have been accounted as sheep for slaughter. 23Awake thou! wherefore shouldst thou sleep, O Lord? Bestir thee! do not reject us altogether! 24Wherefore shouldst thou hide, thy face? Shouldst forget our humiliation and our oppression? 25For our soul, sinketh down to the dust, Our body, cleaveth to the earth. 26Arise to our help, And ransom us, because of thine own lovingkindness.