'Us' in the Bible

“Let us break apart their [divine] bands [of restraint]And cast away their cords [of control] from us.”

Many are saying, “Oh, that we might see some good!”Lift up the light of Your face upon us, O Lord.

Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail;Our lips are our own; who is lord and master over us?”

You, O Lord, will preserve and keep them;You will protect him from this [evil] generation forever.

They track us down and have now surrounded us in our steps;They set their eyes to force us to the ground,

O Lord, save [the king];May the King answer us in the day we call.

Let Your [steadfast] lovingkindness, O Lord, be upon us,In proportion as we have hoped in You.

O magnify the Lord with me,And let us lift up His name together.

Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done,And Your thoughts toward us;There is none to compare with You.If I would declare and speak of your wonders,They would be too many to count.

We have heard with our ears, O God,Our fathers have told usThe work You did in their days,In the days of old.

Through You we will gore our enemies [like a bull];Through Your name we will trample down those who rise up against us.

But You have saved us from our enemies,And You have put them to shame and humiliated those who hate us.

But now You have rejected us and brought us to dishonor,And You do not go out with our armies [to lead us to victory].

You make us turn back from the enemy,And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves.

You have made us like sheep to be eaten [as mutton]And have scattered us [in exile] among the nations.

You have made us the reproach and taunt of our neighbors,A scoffing and a derision to those around us.

You make us a byword among the nations,A laughingstock among the people.

All this has come upon us, yet we have not forgotten You,Nor have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].

Yet You have [distressingly] crushed us in the place of jackalsAnd covered us with [the deep darkness of] the shadow of death.

Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord?Awaken, do not reject us forever.

Rise up! Come be our help,And ransom us for the sake of Your steadfast love.

The Lord of hosts is with us;The God of Jacob is our stronghold [our refuge, our high tower]. Selah.

The Lord of hosts is with us;The God of Jacob is our stronghold [our refuge, our high tower]. Selah.

He subdues peoples under usAnd nations under our feet.

He chooses our inheritance for us,The glory and excellence of Jacob whom He loves. Selah.

Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths;Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips,For they say, “Who hears us?”

O God, You have rejected us and cast us off. You have broken [down our defenses and scattered] us;You have been angry; O restore us and turn again to us.

You have made Your people experience hardship;You have given us wine to drink that makes us stagger and fall.

That Your beloved ones may be rescued,Save with Your right hand and answer us.

Have You not rejected us, O God?And will You not go out with our armies?

Give us help against the enemy,For the help of man is worthless (ineffectual, without purpose).

Trust [confidently] in Him at all times, O people;Pour out your heart before Him.God is a refuge for us. Selah.

They encourage themselves in [their pursuit of] an evil agenda;They talk of laying snares secretly;They say, “Who will discover us?”

By awesome and wondrous things You answer us in righteousness, O God of our salvation,You who are the trust and hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest sea;

Who keeps us among the living,And does not allow our feet to slip or stumble.

For You have tested us, O God;You have refined us as silver is refined.

You brought us into the net;You laid a heavy burden [of servitude] on us.

You made men (charioteers) ride over our heads [in defeat];We went through fire and through water,Yet You brought us out into a [broad] place of abundance [to be refreshed].

God be gracious and kind-hearted to us and bless us,And make His face shine [with favor] on us— Selah.

The earth has yielded its harvest [as evidence of His approval];God, our God, blesses us.

God blesses us,And all the ends of the earth shall fear Him [with awe-inspired reverence and submissive wonder].

Blessed be the Lord, who bears our burden day by day,The God who is our salvation! Selah.

God is to us a God of acts of salvation;And to God the Lord belong escapes from death [setting us free].

Your God has commanded your strength [your power in His service and your resistance to temptation];Show Yourself strong, O God, who acted on our behalf.

You who have shown me many troubles and distressesWill revive and renew me again,And will bring me up again from the depths of the earth.

O God, why have You rejected us forever?Why does Your anger smoke against the sheep of Your pasture?

They said in their heart, “Let us completely subdue them.”They have burned all the meeting places of God in the land.

We do not see our symbols;There is no longer any prophet [to guide us],Nor does any among us know for how long.

And I said, “This is my grief,That the right hand of the Most High has changed [and His lovingkindness is withheld].”

Which we have heard and known,And our fathers have told us.

We have become an object of taunting to our neighbors [because of our humiliation],A derision and mockery to those who encircle us.

O do not remember against us the sins and guilt of our forefathers.Let Your compassion and mercy come quickly to meet us,For we have been brought very low.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name;Rescue us, forgive us our sins for Your name’s sake.

Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh, stir up Your powerAnd come to save us!

Restore us, O God;Cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.

Restore us, O God of hosts;And cause Your face to shine on us [with favor and approval], and we will be saved.

Then we shall not turn back from You;Revive us and we will call on Your name.

Restore us, O Lord God of hosts;Cause Your face to shine on us [in favor and approval], and we shall be saved.

They have said, “Come, and let us wipe them out as a nation;Let the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Who said, “Let us possess for ourselvesThe pastures of God.”

Restore us, O God of our salvation,And cause Your indignation toward us to cease.

Will You be angry with us forever?Will You prolong Your anger to all generations?

Will You not revive us and bring us to life again,That Your people may rejoice in You?

Show us Your lovingkindness, O Lord,And grant us Your salvation.

So teach us to number our days,That we may cultivate and bring to You a heart of wisdom.

O satisfy us with Your lovingkindness in the morning [now, before we grow older],That we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

Make us glad in proportion to the days You have afflicted us,And the years we have suffered evil.

And let the [gracious] favor of the Lord our God be on us;Confirm for us the work of our hands—Yes, confirm the work of our hands.

O come, let us sing joyfully to the Lord;Let us shout joyfully to the rock of our salvation.

Let us come before His presence with a song of thanksgiving;Let us shout joyfully to Him with songs.

O come, let us worship and bow down,Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker [in reverent praise and prayer].

Know and fully recognize with gratitude that the Lord Himself is God;It is He who has made us, not we ourselves [and we are His].We are His people and the sheep of His pasture.

He has not dealt with us according to our sins [as we deserve],Nor rewarded us [with punishment] according to our wickedness.

As far as the east is from the west,So far has He removed our transgressions from us.

Save us, O Lord our God,And gather us from among the nations,That we may give thanks to Your holy nameAnd glory in praising You.

That Your beloved [ones] may be rescued,Save with Your right hand, and answer me!

Have You not rejected us, O God?And will You not go out, O God, with our armies?

Give us help against the adversary,For deliverance by man is in vain [a worthless hope].

Not to us, O Lord, not to us,But to Your name give gloryBecause of Your lovingkindness, because of Your truth and faithfulness.

The Lord has been mindful of us; He will bless,He will bless the house of Israel;He will bless the house of Aaron.

For His lovingkindness prevails over us [and we triumph and overcome through Him],And the truth of the Lord endures forever.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

O Lord, save now, we beseech You;O Lord, we beseech You, send now prosperity and give us success!

The Lord is God, and He has given us light [illuminating us with His grace and freedom and joy].Bind the festival sacrifices with cords to the horns of the altar.

You have ordained Your precepts,That we should follow them with [careful] diligence.

I was glad when they said to me,“Let us go to the house of the Lord.”

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master,And as the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress,So our eyes look to the Lord our God,Until He is gracious and favorable toward us.

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious and favorable toward us,For we are greatly filled with contempt.

“If it had not been the Lord who was on our sideWhen men rose up against us,

Then they would have [quickly] swallowed us alive,When their wrath was kindled against us;

Then the waters would have engulfed us,The torrent would have swept over our soul;

Then the raging waters would have swept over our soul.”

Blessed be the Lord,Who has not given us as prey to be torn by their teeth.

The Lord has done great things for us;We are glad!

The Lord is righteous;He has cut in two the [thick] cords of the wicked [which enslaved the people of Israel].

If You, Lord, should keep an account of our sins and treat us accordingly,O Lord, who could stand [before you in judgment and claim innocence]?

Let us go into His tabernacle;Let us worship at His footstool.

Blessed be the Lord from Zion,Who dwells [with us] at Jerusalem.Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)

Who [faithfully] remembered us in our lowly condition,For His lovingkindness endures forever;

And has rescued us from our enemies,For His lovingkindness endures forever;