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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 Tsomkwm
1Vajtswv, peb tej qhov ntsej yeej
hnov ntsoov zaj no,
peb cov yawgkoob yeej los ibtxwm piav zaj no qhia rau peb
hais txog tej txujci tseemceeb uas koj
tau ua rau lawv tiam ntawd, ntau xyoo los lawm li no:
2koj muab cov neeg nruj tsiv ntiab
khiav tawm,
thiab cia koj haivneeg los nyob hauv lawv lub tebchaws,
koj rau txim rau luag lwm haivneeg
thiab cia koj haivneeg nyob kaj siab lug.
3Koj haivneeg ntaus yeej lub tebchaws ntawd
tsis yog vim lawv tej ntaj thiab lawv lub hwjchim;
tiamsis yog koj lub hwjchim thiab
koj lub zog ua rau lawv yeej,
thiab koj txaus siab rau lawv, vim koj hlub lawv.
4Koj yog kuv tus vajntxwv thiab yog kuv tus Vajtswv,
koj pub rau koj haivneeg muaj yeej,
5twb yog muaj koj lub hwjchim peb
thiaj yeej peb cov yeebncuab.
6Kuv tsis cia siab rau kuv rab hneevnti
lossis kuv rab ntaj hais tias nws yuav cawm tau kuv dim,
7tiamsis twb yog koj cawm peb dim
ntawm peb cov yeebncuab
peb thiaj yeej cov neeg uas pheej ntxub peb.
8Peb yuav niaj hnub qhuas koj, thiab ua koj tsaug mus ibtxhis li.
9Tiamsis nimno koj tso peb tseg thiab
cia peb swb luag,
koj tsis nrog peb cov tubrog mus ntaus rog li lawm.
10Koj ua rau peb khiav ntawm peb cov
yeebncuab rov qab,
thiab txhua yam uas yog peb tug
luag muab huab mus lawm dulug.
11Koj cia luag muab peb hlais ib yam li
hlais tej yaj,
koj muab peb faib mus nyob thoob
plaws rau txhua lub tebchaws.
12Koj muab koj haivneeg muag ua nqi
pheej yig heev, zoo li lawv tsis muaj nqis li.
13Peb tej neeg zejzog pom tej uas koj ua rau peb ntawd,
lawv saib tsis taus peb thiab luag peb plig.
14Koj muab peb ua ib zaj kwv huam
rau luag pejkum tebchaws hais,
lawv thiaj co hau nto thiab saib tsis
taus peb li.
15Kuv poob ntsejmuag kawg nkaus,
kuv txajmuag kawg li,
16thaum kuv hnov kuv cov yeebncuab
thiab cov neeg uas ntxub kuv tej lus cem thiab thuam kuv.
17Thaum tej ntawd los raug peb los
peb tseem nco ntsoov koj,
lossis tsis tso koj tej lus cog tseg uas
koj muab cob rau peb lawm.
18Peb tsis tau ua saib tsis tau koj,
peb tsis tau tawv nyom koj tej lus samhwm.
19Koj tsis pab peb thiab muab peb tso
rau pab tsiaj qus,
koj muab peb tso povtseg rau hauv
lub qhov uas tob tsaus ntuj nti.
20Yog peb tso tseg tsis pehawm peb
tus Vajtswv;
thiab mus pe lwm haivneeg tej vajtswv
21los Vajtswv yeej yuav paub tej no,
rau qhov Vajtswv paub tej uas peb lub siab xav huv tibsi.
22Tiamsis vim peb ntseeg koj luag thiaj pheej tua peb,
luag ua rau peb ib yam li tus yaj uas
luag coj mus tua.
23Tus TSWV, thov koj cia li sawv!
Vim li cas koj tsaug zog?
Koj cia li sawv! Thov tsis txhob tso
peb tseg mus ibtxhis!
24Vim li cas koj khiav nkaum peb?
Thiab koj txawm tsis nco txog peb
tej kev txomnyem thiab kev nyuaj siab li!
25Peb ntog puastsuaj tas rau hauv av,
peb pw txajmuag ntsuav rau saum cov hmoov av,
26Thov koj cia li los pab peb!
Rau qhov koj txojkev hlub uas nyob
mus ibtxhis yog qhov cawm tau peb dim!