1Für den Chorleiter: Ein Psalm der Nachkommen Korachs.2Gott, wir haben es mit eigenen Ohren gehört – unsere Vorfahren haben uns erzählt, was du vor langer Zeit getan hast: (2Mo 12,26)3Du hast die anderen Völker vertrieben und das Land unsren Vorfahren geschenkt. Du hast ihre Feinde vernichtet und unsere Väter befreit, damit unser Volk sich ausbreiten konnte. (Ps 78,55; Ps 80,9)4Sie haben das Land nicht mit ihren Schwertern erobert und nicht aus eigener Kraft gesiegt. Deine große Macht war es, die ihnen zum Sieg verhalf, weil du auf ihrer Seite warst und deine Liebe bei ihnen war.[1] (5Mo 4,37; Jos 24,12; Ps 77,16)5Du bist mein König und mein Gott. Auf dein Wort hin erringt dein Volk[2] den Sieg. (Ps 74,12)6Nur mit dir können wir unsere Feinde schlagen, und nur in deinem Namen können wir sie besiegen. (Ps 60,14)7Ich verlasse mich nicht auf meinen Bogen und vertraue nicht auf mein Schwert, dass es mir hilft.8Du bist es, der uns den Sieg über unsere Feinde schenkt und die umkommen lässt, die uns hassen. (Ps 53,6; Ps 136,24)9Gott, alle Tage wollen wir dich loben und deinem Namen unaufhörlich danken. (Ps 30,13; Ps 34,3)10Doch jetzt hast du uns verstoßen und beschämt. Du führst unser Heer nicht mehr in die Schlacht. (Ps 43,2; Ps 60,12; Ps 74,1)11Du lässt uns vor unseren Feinden fliehen und gestattest ihnen, unser Land zu plündern. (Jos 7,8; Ps 89,42)12Du gabst uns hin wie Schafe zur Schlachtung und hast uns unter die Völker zerstreut. (5Mo 4,27; 5Mo 28,64; Ps 106,27; Hes 20,23)13Du hast uns, dein kostbares Volk, für einen Hungerlohn verkauft, mit dem du nicht den kleinsten Gewinn gemacht hast. (Jes 52,3)14Du hast zugelassen, dass unsere Nachbarn uns verlachen. Den Völkern um uns herum sind wir zum Spott geworden. (Ps 79,4; Ps 80,7)15Du hast uns zum Spott werden lassen, sodass die ganze Welt über uns lacht. (Ps 109,25; Jer 24,9)16Jeden Tag habe ich meine Schande vor Augen und Scham steht mir ins Gesicht,17wenn ich den Hohn unserer Spötter höre und die rachedurstigen Feinde sehe.18Dies alles geschah, obwohl wir dir treu waren und deinen Bund nicht verletzt haben. (Ps 119,61)19Unsere Herzen haben dich nicht verlassen. Wir sind nicht von deinem Weg abgewichen. (Hi 23,11; Ps 119,51)20Dennoch hast du uns in der Wüste niedergestreckt[3] und uns mit Dunkelheit und Tod bedeckt. (Hi 3,5; Ps 51,10)21Hätten wir Gott vergessen oder unsere Hände im Gebet zu fremden Göttern erhoben, (Ps 81,10)22hättest du es gleich gewusst, denn du kennst die Geheimnisse unserer Herzen.23Aber weil wir an dir festhalten, werden wir jeden Tag getötet und wie Schafe geschlachtet. (Jes 53,7; Röm 8,36)24Herr, wach auf! Warum schläfst du? Erhebe dich! Verstoße uns nicht für immer! (Ps 7,7; Ps 77,8; Ps 78,65)25Warum wendest du dich von uns ab? Warum verschließt du deine Augen vor unserem Leid und unserer Unterdrückung? (Hi 13,24; Ps 42,10; Ps 88,15)26Wir werden in den Staub gedrückt und liegen am Boden. (Ps 119,25)27Erhebe dich! Komm und hilf uns! Rette uns um deiner Gnade willen!
For the director of music. A maskil of the Sons of Korah.
1God, we have heard what you did. Those who came before us have told us what you did in their days, in days long ago.2By your power you drove out the nations. You gave our people homes in the land. You crushed the people who were there. And you made our people do well.3They didn’t win the land with their swords. They didn’t gain success by their own power. Your powerful right hand and your mighty arm gave them victory. You gave them success because you loved them.4You are my King and my God. You give victories to the people of Jacob.5With your help we push back our enemies. By your power we walk all over them.6I put no trust in my bow. My sword doesn’t bring me victory.7But you give us victory over our enemies. You put them to shame.8All day long we talk about how great God is. We will praise your name for ever.9But now you have turned your back on us and made us humble. You don’t march out with our armies anymore.10You made us turn and run from our enemies. They have taken what belongs to us.11You handed us over to be eaten up like sheep. You have scattered us among the nations.12You sold your people for very little. You didn’t gain anything when you sold them.13You have made us something that our neighbours laugh at. Those who live around us make fun of us and tease us.14The nations make jokes about us. They shake their heads at us.15All day long I have to live with my shame. My face is covered with it.16That’s because they laugh at me and attack me with their words. They want to get even with me.17All of this happened to us, even though we had not forgotten you. We had not broken the covenant you made with us.18Our hearts had not turned away from you. Our feet had not wandered from your path.19But you crushed us and left us to the wild dogs. You covered us over with deep darkness.20We didn’t forget our God. We didn’t spread out our hands in prayer to a false god.21If we had, God would have discovered it. He knows the secrets of our hearts.22But because of you, we face death all day long. We are considered as sheep to be killed.23Lord, wake up! Why are you sleeping? Get up! Don’t say no to us for ever.24Why do you turn your face away from us? Why do you forget our pain and troubles?25We are brought down to the dust. Our bodies lie flat on the ground.26Rise up and help us. Save us because of your faithful love.
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: (2Mo 10,2; 2Mo 12,26; 2Mo 13,8; 2Mo 13,14; 5Mo 6,20; Ri 6,13; Ps 42,1; Ps 77,5; Ps 78,3)2you with your own hand drove out the nations, but them you planted; you afflicted the peoples, but them you set free; (2Mo 15,17; Jos 3,10; 2Sam 7,10; Ps 78,55; Ps 80,8; Ps 80,9; Jer 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. (5Mo 4,37; 5Mo 7,7; 5Mo 10,15; Jos 24,12; Ps 4,6; Hos 1,7)4You are my King, O God; ordain salvation for Jacob! (Ps 42,8; Ps 74,12)5Through you we push down our foes; through your name we tread down those who rise up against us. (5Mo 33,17; Ps 60,12; Dan 8,4)6For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me. (1Sam 17,47; Ps 33,16)7But you have saved us from our foes and have put to shame those who hate us. (Ps 35,4)8In God we have boasted continually, and we will give thanks to your name forever. (Ps 34,2)9But you have rejected us and disgraced us and have not gone out with our armies. (Ri 4,14; 2Sam 5,24; Ps 43,2; Ps 44,23; Ps 60,1; Ps 60,10; Ps 74,1; Ps 89,38; Ps 108,11)10You have made us turn back from the foe, and those who hate us have gotten spoil. (3Mo 26,17; 5Mo 28,25; Jos 7,8; Jos 7,12)11You have made us like sheep for slaughter and have scattered us among the nations. (3Mo 26,33; 5Mo 4,27; 5Mo 28,64; Ps 44,22; Ps 106,27; Jes 52,3; Hes 20,23; Joh 7,35; 1Petr 1,1)12You have sold your people for a trifle, demanding no high price for them. (5Mo 32,30; Ri 2,14; Ri 3,8; Jer 15,13)13You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, the derision and scorn of those around us. (Neh 2,17; Ps 39,8; Ps 79,4; Ps 80,6; Ps 89,41; Ps 119,22)14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock[2] among the peoples. (Hi 16,4; Hi 17,6; Jer 24,9)15All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face (2Chr 32,21)16at the sound of the taunter and reviler, at the sight of the enemy and the avenger. (Ps 8,2)17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant. (Dan 9,13)18Our heart has not turned back, nor have our steps departed from your way; (Hi 23,11; Ps 37,31; Ps 119,51; Ps 119,157)19yet you have broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with the shadow of death. (Hi 3,5; Hi 30,29; Ps 51,8)20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god, (Hi 11,13; Ps 68,31; Ps 81,9)21would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart. (Ps 139,1; Jer 17,10; Joh 2,25; Hebr 4,13)22Yet for your sake we are killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered. (Ps 44,11; Röm 8,36)23Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord? Rouse yourself! Do not reject us forever! (Ps 35,23; Ps 44,9)24Why do you hide your face? Why do you forget our affliction and oppression? (Hi 13,24)25For our soul is bowed down to the dust; our belly clings to the ground. (Ps 119,25)26Rise up; come to our help! Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love! (Ps 25,22; Ps 63,7)