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Rh :And hast scattered us among the nations.
 * Thou sellest Thy people for small gain,
 * And hast not set their prices high.
 * Thou makest us a taunt to our neighbours,
 * A scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
 * Thou makest us a byword among the nations,
 * A shaking of the head among the peoples.
 * All the day is my confusion before me,
 * And the shame of my face hath covered me,
 * For the voice of him that taunteth and blasphemeth;
 * By reason of the enemy and the revengeful.


 * All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten Thee,
 * Neither have we been false to Thy covenant.
 * Our heart is not turned back,
 * Neither have our steps declined from Thy path;
 * Though Thou hast crushed us into a place of jackals,
 * And covered us with the shadow of death.
 * If we had forgotten the name of our God,
 * Or spread forth our hands to a strange god;
 * Would not God search this out?
 * For He knoweth the secrets of the heart.
 * Nay, but for Thy sake are we killed all the day;
 * We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.


 * Awake, why sleepest Thou, O Lord?
 * Arouse Thyself, cast not off for ever.
 * Wherefore hidest Thou Thy face,
 * And forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
 * For our soul is bowed down to the dust;
 * Our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
 * Arise for our help,
 * And redeem us for Thy mercy's sake.

For the Leader; upon Shoshannim; [a Psalm] of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.


 * My heart overfloweth with a goodly matter;
 * I say: 'My work is concerning a king';
 * My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.


 * Thou art fairer than the children of men;
 * Grace is poured upon thy lips;
 * Therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.
 * Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O mighty one,
 * Thy glory and thy majesty.
 * And in thy majesty prosper, ride on,
 * In behalf of truth and meekness and righteousness;
 * And let thy right hand teach thee tremendous things.
 * Thine arrows are sharp—
 * The peoples fall under thee—
 * [They sink] into the heart of the king's enemies.
 * Thy throne given of God is for ever and ever;
 * A sceptre of equity is the sceptre of thy kingdom.
 * Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated wickedness;
 * Therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee