⁴You are my King and my God,
who ordains victories for Jacob.
⁵Through you we push down our foes;
through your name we tread down our assailants.
⁶For not in my bow do I trust,
nor can my sword save me.
⁷But you have saved us from our foes,
and have put to confusion those who hate us.
⁸In God we have boasted continually,
and we will give thanks to your name for ever. Selah

⁹Yet you have cast us off and abased us,
and have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰You have made us turn back from the foe;
and our enemies have gotten spoil.
¹¹You have made us like sheep for slaughter,
and have scattered us among the nations.
¹²You have sold your people for a trifle,
demanding no high price for them.

¹³You have made us the taunt of our neighbours,
the derision and scorn of those about us.
¹⁴You have made us a byword among the nations,
a laughingstock among the peoples.
¹⁵All day long my disgrace is before me,
and shame has covered my face,
¹⁶at the words of the taunters and revilers,
at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you,
or been false to your covenant.
¹⁸Our heart has not turned back,
nor have our steps departed from your way,
¹⁹that you should have broken us in the place of jackals,
and covered us with deep darkness.

²⁰If we had forgotten the name of our God,
or spread forth our hands to a strange god,
²¹would not God discover this?
For he knows the secrets of the heart.
²²Nay, for your sake we are slain all the day long,
and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

²³Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Yahweh?
Awake! Do not cast us off for ever!
²⁴Why do you hide your face?
Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
our body cleaves to the ground.
²⁶Rise up, come to our help!
Deliver us for the sake of your steadfast love!