For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of the sons of Korah. Maschil.
We have heard with our ears, O God,
Our fathers have told us,
What work thou didst in their days,
In the days of old.
Thou didst drive out the nations with thy hand;
But them thou didst plant:
Thou didst afflict the peoples;
But them thou didst spread abroad.
For they gat not the land in possession by their own sword,
Neither did their own arm save them;
But thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance,
Because thou wast favorable unto them.
Thou art my King, O God:
Command {Or, victories}deliverance for Jacob.
Through thee will we push down our adversaries:
Through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
For I will not trust in my bow,
Neither shall my sword save me.
But thou hast saved us from our adversaries,
And hast put them to shame that hate us.
In God have we made our boast all the day long,
And we will give thanks unto thy name for ever. [Selah
But now thou hast cast us off, and brought us to dishonor,
And goest not forth with our hosts.
Thou makest us to turn back from the adversary;
And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
Thou hast made us like sheep appointed for food,
And hast scattered us among the nations.
Thou sellest thy people for nought,
And hast not increased thy wealth by their price.
Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scoffing and a derision to them that are round about us.
Thou makest us a byword among the nations,
A shaking of the head among the peoples.
All the day long is my dishonor before me,
And the shame of my face hath covered me,
For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth,
By reason of the enemy and the avenger.
All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee,
Neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
Our heart is not turned back,
Neither have our steps declined from thy way,
{Or, Through}That thou hast sore broken us in the place of jackals,
And covered us with the shadow of death.
If we have forgotten the name of our God,
Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
Will not God search this out?
For he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord?
Arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face,
And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust:
Our body cleaveth unto the earth.
Rise up for our help,
And redeem us for thy lovingkindness' sake.
Querverweise zu Psalm 44,24 Ps 44,24
Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah?Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
Oh deliver not {Or, the turtle-dove unto the greedy multitude}the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the wild beast:Forget not the {Or, multitude}life of thy poor for ever.
He saith in his heart, God hath forgotten;He hideth his face; he will never see it.
Forget not the voice of thine adversaries:The tumult of those that rise up against thee {Or, which ascendeth}ascendeth continually.
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever?How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
And it came to pass in the course of those many days, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation:Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou cast me off?Why go I mourning {Or, while the enemy oppresseth}because of the oppression of the enemy?
Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me:Let them bring me unto thy holy hill,And to thy tabernacles.
Then will I go unto the altar of God,Unto God {Hebrew: the gladness of my joy.}my exceeding joy;And upon the harp will I praise thee, O God, my God.
And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And he said, I will hide my face from them,I will see what their end shall be:For they are a very perverse generation,Children in whom is no faithfulness.
Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God?
Wherefore hidest thou thy face,And holdest me for thine enemy?
Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? {Or, Jehovah is an everylasting God, the Creator…he fainteth not &c.}The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held:
and they cried with a great voice, saying, How long, O Master, the holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?