1. WE HAVE heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us [what] work You did in their days, in the days of old.
2. You 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.
3. For 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.
4. You are my King, O God; command victories and deliverance for Jacob (Israel).
5. Through You shall we push down our enemies; through Your name shall we tread them under who rise up against us.
6. For I will not trust in and lean on my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7. But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us.
8. In 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]!
9. But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies.