Dual Panel1WE HAVE heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us [what] work You did in their days, in the days of old.
2You drove out the nations with Your hand {and} it was Your power that gave [Israel] a home by rooting out the [heathen] peoples, but [Israel] You spread out.
3For they got not the land [of Canaan] in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but Your right hand and Your arm and the light of Your countenance [did it], because You were favorable toward {and} did delight in them.
4You are my King, O God; command victories {and} deliverance for Jacob (Israel).
5Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in {and} lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us.
8In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
9But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies.
10You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations.
12You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price.
13You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
14You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people.
15My dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face
16At the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
17All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].
18Our hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path,
19Though You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death.
20If we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
21Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22No, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever!
24Why do You hide Your face {and} forget our affliction and our oppression?
25For our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground.
26Rise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy's sake {and} because of Your steadfast love!