5WHY? ARE YOU BOWED DOWN O SOUL MY AND WHY? ARE YOU IN TURMOIL ON ME WAIT FOR GOD FOR AGAIN I WILL GIVE THANKS TO HIM [THE] SALVATION<S> OF FACE MY AND GOD MY 5Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why the unease within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.
0TO THE CHOIRMASTER OF [THE] SONS OF KORAH A POEM Redeem Us, O God (Romans 8:35–39) 0For the choirmaster. A Maskil*NoteCloseMaskil is probably a musical or liturgical term; used for Psalms 32, 42, 44–45, 52–55, 74, 78, 88–89, and 142. of the sons of Korah.
1O GOD WITH EARS OUR WE HAVE HEARD ANCESTORS OUR THEY HAVE RECOUNTED TO US [THE] DEED[S] [WHICH] YOU DID IN DAYS THEIR IN DAYS OF ANTIQUITY 1We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
2YOU HAND YOUR NATIONS YOU DISPOSSESSED AND YOU PLANTED THEM YOU DID HARM TO PEOPLES AND YOU SET FREE THEM 2With Your hand You drove out the nations and planted our fathers there; You crushed the peoples and cast them out.
3FOR NOT BY SWORD THEIR THEY TOOK POSSESSION OF [THE] LAND AND ARM THEIR NOT IT SAVED <TO> THEM FOR RIGHT [HAND] YOUR AND ARM YOUR AND [THE] LIGHT OF FACE YOUR FOR YOU TOOK PLEASURE IN THEM 3For it was not by their sword that they took the land; their arm did not bring them victory. It was by Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your face, because You favored them.
4YOU HE [ARE] KING MY O GOD ORDAIN [THE] VICTORIES OF JACOB 4You are my King, O God, who ordains victories for Jacob.
5BY YOU OPPONENTS OUR WE GORE IN NAME YOUR WE TREAD DOWN [THOSE WHO] RISE UP AGAINST US 5Through You we repel our foes; through Your name we trample our enemies.
6FOR NOT IN BOW MY I TRUST AND SWORD MY NOT IT SAVES ME 6For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.*NoteCloseOr give me victory; similarly in verse 7
7FOR YOU HAVE SAVED US FROM FOES OUR AND [THOSE WHO] HATE US YOU HAVE PUT TO SHAME 7For You save us from our enemies; You put those who hate us to shame.
8IN GOD WE HAVE BOASTED ALL THE DAY AND NAME YOUR FOR EVER WE WILL PRAISE SELAH 8In God we have boasted all day long, and Your name we will praise forever. Selah
9ALSO YOU HAVE REJECTED AND YOU HAVE HUMILIATED US AND NOT YOU HAVE GONE OUT WITH ARMIES OUR 9But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.
10YOU HAVE MADE TURN BACK US BACKWARDS FROM [THE] OPPONENT AND [THOSE WHO] HATE US THEY HAVE PLUNDERED FOR THEMSELVES 10You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
11YOU HAVE MADE US LIKE SHEEP OF FOOD AND AMONG THE NATIONS YOU HAVE SCATTERED US 11You have given us up as sheep to be devoured; You have scattered us among the nations.
12YOU HAVE SOLD PEOPLE YOUR FOR NOT WEALTH AND NOT YOU HAVE MADE GREAT BY PRICE<S> THEIR 12You sell Your people for nothing; no profit do You gain from their sale.
13YOU HAVE MADE US A REPROACH TO NEIGHBORS OUR MOCKERY AND DERISION TO [THOSE] AROUND US 13You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and derision to those around us.
14YOU HAVE MADE US A BYWORD AMONG THE NATIONS A SHAKING OF HEAD NOT PEOPLES 14You have made us a byword among the nations, a laughingstock*NoteCloseLiterally a shaking of the head among the peoples.
15ALL THE DAY IGNOMINY MY [IS] BEFORE ME AND [THE] SHAME OF FACE MY IT HAS COVERED ME 15All day long my disgrace is before me, and shame has covered my face,
16FROM [THE] SOUND OF [ONE WHO] TAUNTS AND [ONE WHO] REVILES <FROM> BECAUSE OF AN ENEMY AND AN AVENGER 16at the voice of the scorner and reviler, because of the enemy, bent on revenge.
17ALL THIS IT HAS COME TO US AND NOT WE HAD FORGOTTEN YOU AND NOT WE HAD DEALT FALSELY WITH COVENANT YOUR 17All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten You or betrayed Your covenant.
18NOT IT HAD TURNED BACK BACKWARDS HEART OUR AND IT HAD TURNED ASIDE STEPS OUR FROM PATH YOUR 18Our hearts have not turned back; our steps have not strayed from Your path.
19FOR YOU HAVE CRUSHED US IN A PLACE OF JACKALS AND YOU HAVE COVERED OVER US WITH DEEP DARKNESS 19But You have crushed us in the lair of jackals;*NoteCloseOr serpents or dragons You have covered us with deepest darkness.
20IF WE HAD FORGOTTEN [THE] NAME OF GOD OUR AND WE HAD SPREAD OUT HANDS OUR TO A GOD STRANGE 20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21¿ NOT GOD WILL HE SEARCH OUT THIS FOR HE [IS] KNOWING [THE] SECRETS OF [THE] HEART 21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
22FOR ON YOU WE HAVE BEEN KILLED ALL THE DAY WE HAVE BEEN REGARDED LIKE SHEEP OF SLAUGHTER 22Yet for Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.*NoteCloseCited in Romans 8:36
23AWAKE! <TO> WHY? DO YOU SLEEP O LORD AWAKE! MAY NOT YOU REJECT [US] TO PERPETUITY 23Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.
24<TO> WHY? FACE YOUR DO YOU HIDE DO YOU FORGET? AFFLICTION OUR AND OPPRESSION OUR 24Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
25FOR IT HAS SUNK DOWN TO THE DUST SELF OUR IT HAS CLUNG TO THE EARTH BELLY OUR 25For our soul has sunk to the dust; our bodies cling to the earth.
26ARISE! <TO> A HELP OF US AND REDEEM US FOR [THE] SAKE OF COVENANT LOYALTY YOUR 26Rise up; be our help Redeem us on account of Your loving devotion.