1. We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days in the times of old.
2. How thou didst drive out the Gentiles with thy hand and plant them in their place; how thou didst afflict the peoples and cast them out.
3. For they did not get the land in inheritance 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 thy delight was in them.
4. Thou art my King, O God; command saving health unto Jacob.
5. Through thee will we push down our enemies; through thy name will we tread under those that rise up against us.
6. For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7. But thou hast saved us from our enemies and hast put to shame those that hated us.
8. In God we boast all the day long and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9. But thou hast cast us off and put us to shame and doth not go forth with our armies.
10. Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy, and we are spoiled by those who hate us.
11. Thou hast given us over like sheep appointed for food and hast scattered us among the Gentiles.
12. Thou hast sold thy people for nothing and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.
14. Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the people.