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Redemption Remembered in Present Dishonor
To the Chief Musician. A ⚓Contemplation of the sons of Korah.
⚓Our fathers have told us,
The deeds You did in their days,
In days of old:
2⚓You drove out the nations with Your hand,
But them You planted;
You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out.
3For ⚓they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword,
Nor did their own arm save them;
But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance,
⚓Because You favored them.
4⚓You are my King, O God;
Command victories for Jacob.
5Through You ⚓we will push down our enemies;
Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us.
6For ⚓I will not trust in my bow,
Nor shall my sword save me.
7But You have saved us from our enemies,
And have put to shame those who hated us.
8⚓In God we boast all day long,
And praise Your name forever.
Selah
9But ⚓You have cast us off and put us to shame,
And You do not go out with our armies.
10You make us ⚓turn back from the enemy,
And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.
11⚓You have given us up like sheep intended for food,
And have ⚓scattered us among the nations.
12⚓You sell Your people for next to nothing,
And are not enriched by selling them.
13⚓You make us a reproach to our neighbors,
A scorn and a derision to those all around us.
14⚓You make us a byword among the nations,
⚓A shaking of the head among the peoples.
15My dishonor is continually before me,
And the shame of my face has covered me,
16Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
⚓Because of the enemy and the avenger.
17⚓All this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant.
18Our heart has not turned back,
⚓Nor have our steps departed from Your way;
19But You have severely broken us in ⚓the place of jackals,
And covered us ⚓with the shadow of death.
20If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or ⚓stretched out our hands to a foreign god,
21⚓Would not God search this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22⚓Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
23⚓Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?
Arise! Do not cast us off forever.
24⚓Why do You hide Your face,
And forget our affliction and our oppression?
25For ⚓our soul is bowed down to the dust;
Our body clings to the ground.
26Arise for our help,
And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.
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Thov Vajtswv tsom kav tsom kwm
Sau rau tus thawj coj hu nkauj. Yog zaj nkauj Maxakhi⚓ uas Khaula caj ces sau.
thiab peb tej poj koob yawm txwv tau piav
txog tej haujlwm uas koj tau ua
rau thaum lawv sim neej yav thaum ub.
2Koj txhais tes tau ntiab tej tebchaws khiav mus,
hos koj cog peb tej poj koob yawm txwv nyob.
Koj ua rau ib tsoom neeg raug kev txom nyem,
hos koj muab peb tej poj koob yawm txwv
tso nyob ywj pheej.
3Tsis yog lawv tej ntaj pab lawv
txeeb tau lub tebchaws ntawd,
thiab tsis yog lawv txhais tes kov yeej,
tiamsis yog koj txhais tes xis
thiab koj txhais npab
thiab qhov uas koj tsa qhov muag saib lawv
rau qhov koj txaus siab rau lawv.
4Koj yog kuv tus vajntxwv thiab kuv tus Vajtswv
uas hais tseg kom Yakhauj kov yeej.
5Vim yog muaj koj
peb thiaj li thawb tau peb cov tshawj chim,
vim muaj koj lub npe
peb thiaj li tsuj tau cov uas tawm tsam peb,
6rau qhov kuv tsis tso siab rau kuv rab hneev nti,
thiab kuv rab ntaj los cawm tsis tau kuv.
7Tiamsis koj tau cawm peb dim
ntawm peb cov tshawj chim
thiab ua rau cov uas ntxub peb raug txaj muag.
8Peb khav txog Vajtswv tsis tu li,
thiab peb yuav ua tsaug rau koj lub npe
ib txhis mus li.
9Los koj tseem tso peb tseg
thiab ua rau peb poob qes,
thiab tsis tau tawm nrog peb cov tub rog mus.
10Koj ua rau peb thim
ntawm peb cov tshawj chim rov qab,
thiab peb tej yeeb ncuab txeeb tau
peb tej qhov txhia chaw mus lawm.
11Koj ua rau peb zoo yam nkaus li
tej yaj uas yuav coj mus tua,
thiab ua rau peb tawg ua sab ua sua
mus rau ib tsoom tebchaws.
12Koj muab koj haiv neeg
muag pheejyim kawg li,
koj tsis tau tshaj thawj li.
13Koj ua rau peb raug luag zej zog thuam,
ua rau peb raug cov uas nyob ib ncig luag
thiab saib tsis taus peb.
14Thiab ua rau peb mus tiag luag ncauj luag lo
rau hauv ib tsoom tebchaws,
thiab ua lub chaw rau ib tsoom neeg luag.
15Kuv poob ntsej muag tas hnub tas hmo,
thiab kev txaj muag npog nkaus
kuv lub ntsej muag,
16vim yog raug tej lus uas luag thuam luag
thiab saib tsis taus,
vim yog cov yeeb ncuab
thiab cov uas cib nyeej.
17Txawm yog peb pheej nco ntsoov koj
thiab tsis tau rhuav koj tej lus cog tseg,
los txhua yam no los raug peb.
18Peb lub siab kuj tsis fav xeeb
peb txhais kotaw kuj tsis ncaim
ntawm koj txojkev,
19los koj cia peb ntsoog tag
rau hauv hma tej chaw nyob,
thiab muab txojkev tsaus ntuj los npog peb.
20Yog peb pheej tsis nco ntsoov
peb tus Vajtswv lub npe
thiab tsa tes rau luag tej dab,
21ces Vajtswv txawm tsis paub
qhov no lawm lov?
Rau qhov nws yeej paub
tej uas peb xav twjywm hauv lub siab.
22Vim tim koj peb thiaj raug muab tua
tas hnub tas hmo,
thiab raug muab suav yam li cov yaj
uas coj mus tua.
23Au tus Tswv, cia li sawv tsees,
ua cas koj tseem pw tsaug zog?
Cia li tsim dheev.
Tsis txhob muab peb tso tseg ib txhis.
24Ua li cas koj yuav fee plhu ntawm peb?
Ua cas koj yuav tsis nco qab qhov uas
peb raug kev txom nyem raug quab yuam?
25Peb tus ntsuj plig khoov mus ti nkaus av,
peb lub cev pua lua rau hauv pem teb.
26Thov koj cia li sawv tsees los pab peb,
thov txhiv peb dim
vim yog saib rau koj txojkev hlub uas ruaj khov.