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 6 By Thee do we push down our oppressors,

In Thy name do we tread down those who rise up against us.

7 For not in mine own bow do I trust,

And my sword doth not obtain for me the victory.

8 No indeed, Thou givest us the victory over our oppressors, And dost put to shame those who hate us.

9 In Elohim do we make our boast continually,

And to Thy name will we ever give thanks. (Sela.)

10 Nevertheless Thou hast cast off and pnt us to confusion, And wentesfnot forth with our armies ;

11 Thou madest us to turn back before the oppressor, And those who hate us spoiled just as they liked.

12 Thou gavest us up like sheep for consumption, And among the heathen didst Thou scatter us,

13 Thou didst sell Thy people for a mere nothing, And didst not set a high price upon them.

14 Thou didst make us a reproach to our neighbours,

A scorn and a derisiou to those who are round about u*.

15 Thou didst make us a proverb among the heathen, A shaking of the head among the peoples.

16 Continually is my confusion before me, And the shame of my face covereth me ;

17 Because of the voice of him who reproacheth and blas-

phemed), Because of the sight of the enemy and the revengeful.

18 All this is come upon us and we have not forgotten

Thee, And have not become faithless to Thy covenant.

19 Our heart has not turned back,

That our step should have declined from Thy path,

20 That Thou hast crushed us in the place of jackals, And didst cover us with the shadow of death.

21 If we had forgotten the name of our God, And stretched out our hands to a strange god :

22 Would not Elohim have searched it out?

For He knoweth the hidden things of the heart.