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For the one directing.
For the sons of Korah.
A psalm.
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O God, with our ears we heard,
our fathers recounted to us the work you worked in their days, in the days gone by.
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You, your hand dispossessed the nations
And you planted them.
You destroyed peoples.
You sent them away.
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For with their sword they did not possess [the] land,
And their arm did not save for them,
For your right hand and your arm and the light of your face,
For you favoured them.
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You [are] he,
My king, God,
Command salvations of Jacob.
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In you we charge our foes like a bull.
In your name we trample, we rise up.
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For I do not trust in my bow
And my sword does not save me.
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For you saved us from our foes
and those hating us you shamed.
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In God we praise all the day
And your name we confess forever.
Selah.
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Surely you rejected and humiliated us.
And you did not go out with our armies.
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You turned us back from the foe.
And those who hated us plundered for themselves.
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You gave us like sheep [as] food
And among the nations you scattered us.
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You sold your people with not wealth [for nothing].
And you did grow large in their price.
[You sold your people for nothing,
And you did not profit from their sale]
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You set us a reproach before our neighbours,
A mocking and a derision to the ones surrounding us.
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You set us as a riddle among the nations,
A shaking of the head among [and] to the peoples.
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All the day my reproach is before me
And the shame of my face covers me.
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From the voice of the reproacher and reviler,
From the face of the enemy and the ones taking revenge.
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All this came upon us,
And we did not forget you
And we did not deal falsely with your covenant.
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Our heart did not turn back
nor did it incline our steps from your path.
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For you crushed us in a place of jackels
And you covered us with death like shadow.
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If we forget the name of our God,
And spread our hands to a foreign God,
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would God not search it out?
For he is knowing the secrets of a heart.
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For on account of you we are killed all the day,
We are reckoned like sheep slaughtered.
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Arise.
Why are you sleeping my Lord
Wake up .
Do not reject for blood
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Why do you hid your face
You forget our affliction and distress.
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For he sinks our life to dust.
Our belly clings to the earth.
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Arise,
Be a helper for us.
And ransom us because of your covenant faithfulness.