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For the Leader; a Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil

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O G-d, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us; a work Thou didst in their days, in the days of old

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Thou with Thy hand didst drive out the nations, and didst plant them in; Thou didst break the peoples, and didst spread them abroad

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For not by their own sword did they get the land in possession, neither did their own arm save them; but Thy right hand, and Thine arm, and the light of Thy countenance, because Thou wast favourable unto them

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Thou art my King, O G-d; command the salvation of Jacob

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Through Thee do we push down our adversaries; through Thy name do we tread them under that rise up against us

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For I trust not in my bow, neither can my sword save me

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But Thou hast saved us from our adversaries, and hast put them to shame that hate us

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In G-d have we gloried all the day, and we will give thanks unto Thy name for ever. Sela

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Yet Thou hast cast off, and brought us to confusion; and goest not forth with our hosts

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Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary; and they that hate us spoil at their will

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Thou hast given us like sheep to be eaten; and hast scattered us among the nations

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Thou sellest Thy people for small gain, and hast not set their prices high

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Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us

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Thou makest us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples

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All the day is my confusion before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me

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For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and the revengeful

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All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee, neither have we been false to Thy covenant

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Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy path

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Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals, and covered us with the shadow of death

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If we had forgotten the name of our G-d, or spread forth our hands to a strange god

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Would not G-d search this out? For He knoweth the secrets of the heart

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Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter

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Awake, why sleepest Thou, O L-rd? Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever

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Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression

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For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly cleaveth unto the earth

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Arise for our help, and redeem us for Thy mercy's sake