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For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?

Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.

Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.

Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.

If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;

Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;

All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.

For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.

My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,

Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.

Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.

Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.

But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.

In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.

But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.

Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.

Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.

For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.

How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.

We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.

For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren.

For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father, saying, If I bring him not unto thee, then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever.

It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father, and the lad be not with us; seeing that his life is bound up in the lad"s life;