1(For the one directing. Of the Bnei Korach. A maskil)

2We have heard with our oznayim, O Elohim,
Avoteinu have told us,
what po'al (work) Thou hast wrought in their days,
in the times of old.

3How Thou didst drive out the Goyim with Thy Yad,
but plantedst them;
how Thou didst afflict the peoples,
but for them Thou madest room.

4For they got not eretz in possession by their own cherev,
neither did their own zero'a save them,
but Thy Yamin (Right Hand), and Thine Zero'a,
and the ohr (light) of Thy countenance,
because Thou favored them.

5Thou art my Melech, O Elohim;
command yeshu'ot (deliverances) for Ya'akov.

6Through Thee will we push down our enemies;
through Thy Shem will we trample them under that rise up against us.

7For I will not trust in my keshet (bow),
neither shall my cherev save me.

8But Thou hast saved us from tzareinu (our enemies),
and hast put them to shame that hated us.

9In Elohim we boast kol hayom,
and praise Thy Shem l'olam (forever).
Selah

10But Thou hast cast off, and disgraced us;
and goest not forth with tzivoteinu (our armies).

11Thou makest us to turn back from before the tzar (enemy);
and they which hate us have taken plunder for themselves.

12Thou hast given us up like tzon appointed for food;
and hast scattered us among the Goyim.

13Thou sellest Amecha (Thy People) for a mere nothing,
and art not enriched by their price.

14Thou makest us a cherpah (reproach) to our shchenim (neighbors),
a scorn and a derision to them that are all around us.

15Thou makest us a mashal (byword) among the Goyim,
a shaking of the rosh among the peoples.

16Kol hayom my dishonor is continually before me,
and the shame of my face hath covered me,

17At the voice of him that reproacheth and revileth;
by reason of the oyev (enemy) and avenger.

18All this is come upon us;
yet have we not forgotten Thee,
neither have we dealt falsely in Thy Brit.

19Libenu (our heart) is not turned back,
neither have our steps departed from Thy way;

20Though Thou hast crushed us in the makom (place, home, haunt) of jackals,
and covered us with the tzalmavet (shadow of death).

21If we have forgotten the Shem of Eloheinu,
or stretched out our palms ⁴⁸to an el zar (foreign g-d);

22Shall not Elohim search this out?
For He knoweth the secrets of the lev.

23Yes, for Thy sake are we killed kol hayom;
we are counted as tzon (sheep) for the tivchah (slaughter).

24Awake. Why sleepest Thou, Adonoi?
Arise, cast us not off lanetzach (forever).

25Why hidest Thou Thy face,
and forgettest our oni (misery, affliction) and our oppression?

26For our nefesh is bowed down to the aphar (dust);
our beten (belly, body) has deveykus with the dirt.

27Arise for our help,
and redeem us for the sake of Thy chesed.