⁴ You are my King^(M) and my God,^(N)
    who decrees^[c] victories^(O) for Jacob.
⁵ Through you we push back^(P) our enemies;
    through your name we trample^(Q) our foes.
⁶ I put no trust in my bow,^(R)
    my sword does not bring me victory;
⁷ but you give us victory^(S) over our enemies,
    you put our adversaries to shame.^(T)
8 In God we make our boast^(U) all day long,^(V)
    and we will praise your name forever.^[d](W)

⁹ But now you have rejected^(X) and humbled us;^(Y)
    you no longer go out with our armies.^(Z)
10 You made us retreat^(AA) before the enemy,
    and our adversaries have plundered^(AB) us.
¹¹ You gave us up to be devoured like sheep^(AC)
    and have scattered us among the nations.^(AD)
12 You sold your people for a pittance,^(AE)
    gaining nothing from their sale.

¹³ You have made us a reproach^(AF) to our neighbors,^(AG)
    the scorn^(AH) and derision^(AI) of those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us a byword^(AJ) among the nations;
    the peoples shake their heads^(AK) at us.
¹⁵ I live in disgrace^(AL) all day long,
    and my face is covered with shame^(AM)
16 at the taunts^(AN) of those who reproach and revile^(AO) me,
    because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.^(AP)

¹⁷ All this came upon us,
    though we had not forgotten^(AQ) you;
    we had not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our hearts had not turned^(AR) back;
    our feet had not strayed from your path.
¹⁹ But you crushed^(AS) us and made us a haunt for jackals;^(AT)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.^(AU)

²⁰ If we had forgotten^(AV) the name of our God
    or spread out our hands to a foreign god,^(AW)
21 would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?^(AX)
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep^(AY) to be slaughtered.^(AZ)

²³ Awake,^(BA) Lord! Why do you sleep?^(BB)
    Rouse yourself!^(BC) Do not reject us forever.^(BD)
24 Why do you hide your face^(BE)
    and forget^(BF) our misery and oppression?^(BG)

²⁵ We are brought down to the dust;^(BH)
    our bodies cling to the ground.
²⁶ Rise up^(BI) and help us;
    rescue^(BJ) us because of your unfailing love.^(BK)

¹¹ “Also for you, Judah,
    a harvest^(A) is appointed.

“Whenever I would restore the fortunes^(B) of my people,

³ “They delight the king with their wickedness,
    the princes with their lies.^(J)
4 They are all adulterers,^(K)
    burning like an oven
whose fire the baker need not stir
    from the kneading of the dough till it rises.
⁵ On the day of the festival of our king
    the princes become inflamed with wine,^(L)
    and he joins hands with the mockers.^(M)
6 Their hearts are like an oven;^(N)
    they approach him with intrigue.
Their passion smolders all night;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven;
    they devour their rulers.
All their kings fall,^(O)
    and none of them calls^(P) on me.

⁸ “Ephraim mixes^(Q) with the nations;
    Ephraim is a flat loaf not turned over.
⁹ Foreigners sap his strength,^(R)
    but he does not realize it.
His hair is sprinkled with gray,
    but he does not notice.
¹⁰ Israel’s arrogance testifies against him,^(S)
    but despite all this
he does not return^(T) to the Lord his God
    or search^(U) for him.

¹¹ “Ephraim is like a dove,^(V)
    easily deceived and senseless—
now calling to Egypt,^(W)
    now turning to Assyria.^(X)
12 When they go, I will throw my net^(Y) over them;
    I will pull them down like the birds in the sky.
When I hear them flocking together,
    I will catch them.
¹³ Woe^(Z) to them,
    because they have strayed^(AA) from me!
Destruction to them,
    because they have rebelled against me!
I long to redeem them
    but they speak about me^(AB) falsely.^(AC)
14 They do not cry out to me from their hearts^(AD)
    but wail on their beds.
They slash themselves,^[a] appealing to their gods
    for grain and new wine,^(AE)
    but they turn away from me.^(AF)
15 I trained^(AG) them and strengthened their arms,
    but they plot evil^(AH) against me.
¹⁶ They do not turn to the Most High;^(AI)
    they are like a faulty bow.^(AJ)
Their leaders will fall by the sword
    because of their insolent^(AK) words.
For this they will be ridiculed^(AL)
    in the land of Egypt.^(AM)