1To the choirmaster. A Maskil[1] of the Sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old: (出10:2; 出12:26; 出13:8; 出13:14; 申6:20; 士6:13; 诗42:1; 诗77:5; 诗78:3)2you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; (出15:17; 书3:10; 撒下7:10; 诗78:55; 诗80:8; 诗80:9; 耶17:8)3for not by their own sword did they win the land, nor did their own arm save them, but your right hand and your arm, and the light of your face, for you delighted in them. (申4:37; 申7:7; 申10:15; 书24:12; 诗4:6; 何1:7)4You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! (诗42:8; 诗74:12)5Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. (申33:17; 诗60:12; 但8:4)6For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. (撒上17:47; 诗33:16)7But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us. (诗35:4)8In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. (诗34:2)9But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies. (士4:14; 撒下5:24; 诗43:2; 诗44:23; 诗60:1; 诗60:10; 诗74:1; 诗89:38; 诗108:11)10You have made us turn back from the foe, and those who hate us have gotten spoil. (利26:17; 申28:25; 书7:8; 书7:12)11You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations. (利26:33; 申4:27; 申28:64; 诗44:22; 诗106:27; 赛52:3; 结20:23; 约7:35; 彼前1:1)12You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. (申32:30; 士2:14; 士3:8; 耶15:13)13You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us. (尼2:17; 诗39:8; 诗79:4; 诗80:6; 诗89:41; 诗119:22)14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock[2] among the peoples. (伯16:4; 伯17:6; 耶24:9)15All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face (代下32:21)16at the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger. (诗8:2)17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. (但9:13)18Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; (伯23:11; 诗37:31; 诗119:51; 诗119:157)19yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death. (伯3:5; 伯30:29; 诗51:8)20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, (伯11:13; 诗68:31; 诗81:9)21would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. (诗139:1; 耶17:10; 约2:25; 來4:13)22Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. (诗44:11; 羅8:36)23Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! (诗35:23; 诗44:9)24Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression? (伯13:24)25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground. (诗119:25)26Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love! (诗25:22; 诗63:7)