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¹ In days of old: ² You afflicted the peoples, and cast them out. ³ Because You favored them. ⁴ Command victories for Jacob. ⁵ Through Your name we will trample those who rise up against us. ⁶ Nor shall my sword save me. ⁷ And have put to shame those who hated us. ⁸ Selah ⁹ And You do not go out with our armies. ¹⁰ And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. ¹¹ And have scattered us among the nations. ¹² And are not enriched by selling them. ¹³ A scorn and a derision to those all around us. ¹⁴ A shaking of the head among the peoples. ¹⁵ And the shame of my face has covered me, ¹⁶ Because of the enemy and the avenger. ¹⁷ Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant. ¹⁸ Nor have our steps departed from Your way; ¹⁹ And covered us with the shadow of death. ²⁰ Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, ²¹ For He knows the secrets of the heart. ²² We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ²³ Arise! Do not cast us off forever. ²⁴ And forget our affliction and our oppression? ²⁵ Our body clings to the ground. ²⁶ And redeem us for Your mercies’ sake.