^4 (J)You are my King, O God;
    ^(K)ordain salvation for Jacob!
⁵ Through you we ^(L)push down our foes;
    through your name we ^(M)tread down those who rise up against us.
⁶ For not in ^(N)my bow do I trust,
    nor can my sword save me.
⁷ But you have saved us from our foes
    and have ^(O)put to shame those who hate us.
^8 (P)In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah

⁹ But you have ^(Q)rejected us and disgraced us
    and ^(R)have not gone out with our armies.
¹⁰ You have made us ^(S)turn back from the foe,
    and those who hate us have gotten spoil.
¹¹ You have made us like ^(T)sheep for slaughter
    and have ^(U)scattered us among the nations.
^12 (V)You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.
¹³ You have made us ^(W)the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and ^(X)scorn of those around us.
¹⁴ You have made us ^(Y)a byword among the nations,
    ^(Z)a laughingstock^[b] among the peoples.
¹⁵ All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and ^(AA)shame has covered my face
¹⁶ at the sound of the taunter and reviler,
    at the sight of ^(AB)the enemy and the avenger.

^17 (AC)All this has come upon us,
    though we have not forgotten you,
    and we have not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our ^(AD)steps ^(AE)departed from your way;
¹⁹ yet you have ^(AF)broken us in the place of ^(AG)jackals
    and covered us with ^(AH)the shadow of death.
²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or ^(AI)spread out our hands to ^(AJ)a foreign god,
^21 (AK)would not God discover this?
    ^(AL)For he knows the secrets of the heart.
²² Yet ^(AM)for your sake we are killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.

^23 (AN)Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?
    Rouse yourself! ^(AO)Do not reject us forever!
²⁴ Why ^(AP)do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?
²⁵ For our ^(AQ)soul is bowed down to the dust;
    our belly clings to the ground.
²⁶ Rise up; ^(AR)come to our help!
    ^(AS)Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love!

¹¹ For you also, O ^(A)Judah, ^(B)a harvest is appointed.

When ^(C)I restore the fortunes of my people,
7 ^(D)when I would heal Israel,
    the iniquity of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the evil deeds of ^(E)Samaria,
for ^(F)they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.
² But they do not consider
    that ^(G)I remember all their evil.
Now ^(H)their deeds surround them;
    ^(I)they are before my face.
³ By their evil ^(J)they make ^(K)the king glad,
    and the princes by their treachery.
^4 (L)They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker ceases to stir the fire,
    from the kneading of the dough
    until it is leavened.
⁵ On the day of ^(M)our king, the princes
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.
⁶ For with hearts like an oven ^(N)they approach their intrigue;
    all night their anger smolders;
    in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
⁷ All of them are hot as an oven,
    and they devour their rulers.
All ^(O)their kings ^(P)have fallen,
    and none of them calls upon me.

⁸ Ephraim ^(Q)mixes himself with the peoples;
    Ephraim is a cake not turned.
^9 (R)Strangers devour his strength,
    and ^(S)he knows it not;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
    and ^(T)he knows it not.
^10 (U)The pride of Israel testifies to his face;^{[a]
    (V)}yet they do not return to the Lord their God,
    nor seek him, for all this.

¹¹ Ephraim is like a dove,
    ^(W)silly and without sense,
    calling to ^(X)Egypt, going to ^(Y)Assyria.
¹² As they go, ^(Z)I will spread over them my net;
    I will bring them down like birds of the heavens;
    ^(AA)I will discipline them ^(AB)according to the report made to their congregation.
^13 (AC)Woe to them, for they have strayed from me!
    Destruction to them, for they have rebelled against me!
^(AD)I would redeem them,
    but ^(AE)they speak lies against me.

^14 (AF)They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but ^(AG)they wail upon their beds;
for grain and wine they gash themselves;
    they rebel against me.
¹⁵ Although ^(AH)I trained and strengthened their arms,
    yet they devise evil against me.
¹⁶ They ^(AI)return, but not upward;^[b]
    they are ^(AJ)like a treacherous bow;
their princes shall fall by the sword
    because of ^(AK)the insolence of their tongue.
This shall be their derision ^(AL)in the land of Egypt.