GOODMORNING!

¹Our God, our ancestors told us

what wonders you worked

and we listened carefully.

²You chased off the nations

by causing them trouble

with your powerful arm.

Then you let our ancestors

take over their land.

³Their strength and weapons

were not

what won the land

and gave them victory!

You loved them and fought

with your powerful arm

and your shining glory.

⁴You are my God and King,

and you give victory ^[a] to the people of Jacob.

⁵By your great power,

we knocked our enemies down

and stomped on them.

⁶I don’t depend on my arrows

or my sword to save me.

⁷But you saved us

from our hateful enemies,

and you put them to shame.

⁸We boast about you, our God,

and we are always grateful.

⁹But now you have rejected us;

you don’t lead us into battle,

and we look foolish.

¹⁰You made us retreat,

and our enemies have taken

everything we own.

¹¹You let us be slaughtered

like sheep,

and you scattered us

among the nations.

¹²You sold your people

for little or nothing,

and you earned no profit.

¹³You made us look foolish

to our neighbors,

and people who live nearby

insult us and sneer.

¹⁴Foreigners joke about us

and shake their heads.

¹⁵I am embarrassed every day,

and I blush with shame.

¹⁶But others mock and sneer,

as they watch my enemies

take revenge on me.

¹⁷All of this has happened to us,

though we didn’t forget you

or break our agreement.

¹⁸We always kept you in mind

and followed your teaching.

¹⁹But you crushed us,

and you covered us

with deepest darkness

where wild animals live.

²⁰We did not forget you

or lift our hands in prayer

to foreign gods.

²¹You would have known it

because you discover

every secret thought.

²²We face death all day for you.

We are like sheep on their way

to be slaughtered.

²³Wake up! Do something, Lord!

Why are you sleeping?

Don’t desert us forever.

²⁴Why do you keep looking away?

Don’t forget our sufferings

and all of our troubles.

²⁵We are flat on the ground,

holding on to the dust.

²⁶Do something! Help us!

Show how kind you are

and come to our rescue.