| New King James Version | NET Bible |
| 1To the Chief Musician. A Contemplation of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, The deeds You did in their days, In days of old: | 1For the music director; by the Korahites, a well-written song. O God, we have clearly heard; our ancestors have told us what you did in their days, in ancient times. |
| 2You drove out the nations with Your hand, But them You planted; You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out. | 2You, by your power, defeated nations and settled our fathers on their land; you crushed the people living there and enabled our ancestors to occupy it. |
| 3For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them. | 3For they did not conquer the land by their swords, and they did not prevail by their strength, but rather by your power, strength and good favor, for you were partial to them. |
| 4You are my King, O God; Command victories for Jacob. | 4You are my king, O God! Decree Jacob's deliverance! |
| 5Through You we will push down our enemies; Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. | 5By your power we will drive back our enemies; by your strength we will trample down our foes! |
| 6For I will not trust in my bow, Nor shall my sword save me. | 6For I do not trust in my bow, and I do not prevail by my sword. |
| 7But You have saved us from our enemies, And have put to shame those who hated us. | 7For you deliver us from our enemies; you humiliate those who hate us. |
| 8In God we boast all day long, And praise Your name forever. Selah | 8In God I boast all day long, and we will continually give thanks to your name. (Selah) |
| 9But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies. | 9But you rejected and embarrassed us! You did not go into battle with our armies. |
| 10You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. | 10You made us retreat from the enemy. Those who hate us take whatever they want from us. |
| 11You have given us up like sheep intended for food, And have scattered us among the nations. | 11You handed us over like sheep to be eaten; you scattered us among the nations. |
| 12You sell Your people for next to nothing, And are not enriched by selling them. | 12You sold your people for a pittance; you did not ask a high price for them. |
| 13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us. | 13You made us an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us. |
| 14You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples. | 14You made us an object of ridicule among the nations; foreigners treat us with contempt. |
| 15My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me, | 15All day long I feel humiliated and am overwhelmed with shame, |
| 16Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the avenger. | 16before the vindictive enemy who ridicules and insults me. |
| 17All this has come upon us; But we have not forgotten You, Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant. | 17All this has happened to us, even though we have not rejected you or violated your covenant with us. |
| 18Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way; | 18We have not been unfaithful, nor have we disobeyed your commands. |
| 19But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. | 19Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs; you have covered us with darkness. |
| 20If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, | 20If we had rejected our God, and spread out our hands in prayer to another god, |
| 21Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. | 21would not God discover it, for he knows one's thoughts? |
| 22Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. | 22Yet because of you we are killed all day long; we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block. |
| 23Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. | 23Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Wake up! Do not reject us forever! |
| 24Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression? | 24Why do you look the other way, and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated? |
| 25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground. | 25For we lie in the dirt, with our bellies pressed to the ground. |
| 26Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake. | 26Rise up and help us! Rescue us because of your loyal love! |
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