1. O God, we have heard with our ears; our ancestors have told us of work you worked in their days, in days of old.
2. You with your hand drove out the nations, but them you planted. You harmed the peoples, but them you let spread out.
3. For not with their sword did they possess the land, and their arm did not give them victory. Rather it was your right hand and your arm and the light of your presence, because you delighted in them.
4. You are my king, O God. Command victories for Jacob.
5. By you we push down our enemies; by your name we tread down those who rise up against us.
6. For I do not trust my bow, and my sword cannot give me victory.
7. Rather you have saved us from our enemies, and have humiliated those who hate us.
8. In God we boast all the day, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah
9. Surely you have rejected and disgraced us, and have not gone out with our armies.
10. You have caused us to pull back from the enemy, and so those who hate us have plundered for themselves.
11. You have given us as sheep for food, and among the nations you have scattered us.
12. You have sold your people cheaply, and did not profit by their price.
13. You have made us a taunt to our neighbors, a derision and a scorn to those around us.
14. You have made us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15. All day long my disgrace is before me, and the shame of my face covers me,
16. because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler, because of the enemy and the avenger.