To the conductor. For the sons of Korah. A Maskil.1O God, we have heard with our ears; our fathers have recounted to us the work that you performed in their days, in days of old.2You with your hand dispossessed nations and planted them; you afflicted peoples and sent them away.3For they did not possess the land by their sword, nor did their arm save them, but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, because you accepted them.4You yourself are my king, O God; command victories for Jacob.5Through you we will gore our enemies; through your name we will trample those who rise against us.6For I will not trust in my bow, and my sword will not save me.7For you have saved us from our enemies, and you have put our adversaries to shame.8In God we have boasted all the day long, and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah.9Yet you have rejected and humiliated us and do not go out with our armies.10You cause us to turn back before the enemy, and our adversaries plunder for themselves.11You give us up like sheep for food and scatter us among the nations.12You sell your people for no substance and do not increase their price.13You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and a mockery to those around us.14You make us a proverb among the nations, a shaking of the head among the peoples.15All the day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face.16From the voice of the taunter and blasphemer, from the presence of the enemy and the avenger.17All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, nor have we been false to your covenant.18Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way.19For you have crushed us in a place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death.20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our palms to a foreign god.21Will not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.22For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep for slaughter.23Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Rouse yourself; do not reject us forever.24Why do you hide your face and forget our affliction and oppression.25For our soul has sunk down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground.26Arise to help us and redeem us for the sake of your kindness.