⁴ You are my King and my God;
    you command^[a] victories for Jacob.
⁵ Through you we push down our foes;
    through your name we tread down our assailants.^(D)
6 For not in my bow do I trust,
    nor can my sword save me.
⁷ But you have saved us from our foes
    and have put to confusion those who hate us.^(E)
8 In God we have boasted continually,
    and we will give thanks to your name forever. Selah^(F)

⁹ Yet you have rejected us and shamed us
    and have not gone out with our armies.^(G)
10 You made us turn back from the foe,
    and our enemies have gotten spoil.^(H)
11 You have made us like sheep for slaughter
    and have scattered us among the nations.^(I)
12 You have sold your people for a trifle,
    demanding no high price for them.^(J)

¹³ You have made us the taunt of our neighbors,
    the derision and scorn of those around us.^(K)
14 You have made us a byword among the nations,
    a laughingstock^[b] among the peoples.^(L)
15 All day long my disgrace is before me,
    and shame has covered my face
¹⁶ at the words of the taunters and revilers,
    at the sight of the enemy and the avenger.^(M)

¹⁷ All this has come upon us,
    yet we have not forgotten you
    or been false to your covenant.^(N)
18 Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our steps departed from your way,^(O)
19 yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals
    and covered us with deep darkness.^(P)

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God
    or spread out our hands to a strange god,^(Q)
21 would not God discover this?
    For he knows the secrets of the heart.^(R)
22 Because of you we are being killed all day long
    and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.^(S)

²³ Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
    Awake, do not cast us off forever!^(T)
24 Why do you hide your face?
    Why do you forget our affliction and oppression?^(U)
25 For we sink down to the dust;
    our bodies cling to the ground.^(V)
26 Rise up, come to our help.
    Redeem us for the sake of your steadfast love.^(W)

¹¹ For you also, O Judah, a harvest is appointed.

When I would restore the fortunes of my people,^(A)

7 when I would heal Israel,
    the corruption of Ephraim is revealed,
    and the wicked deeds of Samaria,
for they deal falsely;
    the thief breaks in,
    and the bandits raid outside.^(B)
2 But they do not consider
    that I remember all their wickedness.
Now their deeds surround them;
    they are before my face.^(C)
3 By their wickedness they make the king glad,
    and the officials by their treachery.
⁴ They are all adulterers;
    they are like a heated oven
whose baker does not need to stir the fire
    from the kneading of the dough until it is leavened.^(D)
5 On the day of our king the officials
    became sick with the heat of wine;
    he stretched out his hand with mockers.^(E)
6 For they are kindled^[a] like an oven; their heart burns within them;
    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 their kings have fallen;
    none of them calls upon me.^(F)

⁸ Ephraim mixes himself with the peoples;
    Ephraim is a cake not turned.
⁹ Foreigners devour his strength,
    but he does not know it;
gray hairs are sprinkled upon him,
    but he does not know it.^(G)
10 Israel’s pride testifies against^[b] him;
    yet they do not return to the Lord their God
    or seek him, for all this.^(H)

¹⁴ They do not cry to me from the heart,
    but they wail upon their beds;
they gash themselves for grain and wine;
    they rebel against me.^(L)
15 It was I who trained and strengthened their arms,
    yet they plot evil against me.^(M)
16 They turn to that which does not profit;^[d]
    they have become like a defective bow;
their officials shall fall by the sword
    because of the rage of their tongue.
So much for their babbling in the land of Egypt.^(N)