1To the Chanter, an instruction of the sons of Korah We have heard with our ears, (O God) our fathers have told us, what thou hast done in their time of old.
2How thou hast driven out the Heathen with thy hand, and planted them in: how thou hast destroyed the nations and cast them out.
3For they gat not the land in possession thorow their own sword, neither was it their own arm that helped them. But thy right hand, thine arm and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
4Thou art the King and my God, thou sendest help unto Jacob.
5Thorow thee, will we overthrow our enemies: and in thy name will we tread them under, that rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, it is not my sword that shall help me.
7But it is thou that savest us from our enemies, and puttest them to confusion that hate us.
8We will alway make our boast of God, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9But now thou forsakest us, and puttest us to confusion, and goest not forth with our Hosts.
10Thou makest us to turn our backs upon our enemies, so that they which hate us, spoil our goods.
11Thou lettest us be eaten up like sheep, and scatterest us among the Heathen.
12Thou sellest thy people for naught, and takest no money for them.
13Thou makest us to be rebuked of our neighbours, to be laughed to scorn and had in derision, of them that are round about us.
14Thou hast made(makest) us, a very byword among the Heathen, and that the people shake their heads at us.
15My confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face covereth me.
16For the voice of the slanderer(sclaunderer) and blasphemer, for the enemy and avenger.
17All this is come upon us, and yet have we not forgotten thee, nor behaved our selves unfaithfully in thy covenant.
18Our heart is not turned back, neither our steps gone out of thy way.
19For thou hast smitten us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.(That thou smytest us so in the place of the serpet, and coverest us with ye shadowe of death.)
20If we had forgotten the name of our God, and hold up our hands to any strange God.
21Should not God find it out? for he knoweth the very secrets of the heart.
22But for thy sake we are killed all the day long, and are counted as sheep appointed to be slain.
23Up Lord,(LORDE) why sleepest thou; Awake, and cast us not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face? wilt thou clean forget our misery and oppression?
25For our soul is brought low even unto the dust, and our belly cleaveth unto the ground.
26Arise O Lord,(LORDE) help us, and deliver us for thy mercy sake.