You let us be put in prison; chains were put on our legs.

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].

For opened were my lips, And my mouth spake in my distress:

I cried to Him with my mouth, and exaltations were under my tongue.

Were I to cherish iniquity in my heart, the Lord would not listen to me.

O sing unto God, sing praises to his name; magnify him that rideth upon the heavens, as it were upon a horse. Praise him in his name Jah, and rejoice before him.

God maketh the solitary into families; those that were bound he bringeth out into prosperity: but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

The earth was shaking and the heavens were streaming, because God was present; even Sinai itself was moved before God, the God of Israel.

Those whose resting-place was there, even the poor, were comforted by your good things, O God.

The Lord gave the Word; the bearers of it were a great army.

Kings with their armies did flee, and were discomfited; and they of the household divided the spoil.

God's chariots were many thousands. The Lord was there with them at Sinai in holiness.

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.

Those hating me were many above the hairs of my head: mine enemies destroying me by falsehood were strong: then I will turn back what I plucked not away.

O God, thou knewest for my folly, and my faults were not hid from thee.

My own brothers treat me like a stranger; they act as if I were a foreigner.

My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame.

I am become as it were a monster unto many, but my sure trust is in thee.

God, who can compare to you, who caused me to experience troubles that were numerous and disastrous? You will return to revive me and lift me up from the depths of the earth.

Even my tongue, all the day, shall softly utter thy righteousness, For they have turned pale - for they have blushed, Who were seeking my hurt.

The prayers of David son of Jesse were completed.

But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.

When my thoughts were turned to see the reason of this, it was a weariness in my eyes;

How they were for desolation as in a moment they perished; they were finished from sudden destruction.

For my heart will be embittered, and my loins were hard.

So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

Those who are opposing you roar where we were meeting with you; they unfurl their war banners as signs.

The sea was parted in two by your strength; the heads of the great sea-beasts were broken.

The heads of the great snake were crushed by you; you gave them as food to the fishes of the sea.

By you all the limits of the earth were fixed; you have made summer and winter.

Look to thy covenant: for the dark places of the earth were filled with habitations of violence.

There were the arrows of the bow broken, there he put an end to body-cover, sword, and fight. (Selah.)

The bravehearted were plundered; they "fell asleep." All the warriors were helpless.

At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
Both rider and horse were cast into a dead sleep.

I sought the Lord in my day of trouble.
My hands were continually lifted up
all night long;
I refused to be comforted.

Then remembered I the times of old, and the years that were past.

The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled.

Your way [was] through the sea, and your path through many waters. Yet your footprints were not discerned.

You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.

so that a future generation—
children yet to be born—might know.
They were to rise and tell their children

Then they will not be like their ancestors, who were a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that was not committed and faithful to God.

The children of Ephraim, armed with bows, were turned back on the day of the fight.

They were not ruled by God's word, and they would not go in the way of his law;

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

The rocks of the waste land were broken by his power, and he gave them drink as out of the deep waters.

“Behold, He struck the rock so that waters gushed out,
And streams were overflowing;
Can He give bread also?
Will He provide meat for His people?”

And he gave orders to the clouds on high, and the doors of heaven were open;

So they had food and were full; for he gave them their desire;

But they were not turned from their desires; and while the food was still in their mouths,

So their days were wasted like a breath, and their years in trouble.

But their lips were false to him, and their tongues were untrue to him;

And their hearts were not right with him, and they did not keep their agreement with him.

So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

So that their rivers were turned to blood, and they were not able to get drink from their streams.

He sent ice for the destruction of their vines; their trees were damaged by the bitter cold.

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

But they were bitter against the Most High God, testing him, and not keeping his laws;

Their hearts were turned back and untrue like their fathers; they were turned to one side like a twisted bow.

Their young men were burned in the fire; and their virgins were not praised in the bride-song.

Their priests were put to death by the sword, and their widows made no weeping for them.

His haters were turned back by his blows and shamed for ever.

From looking after the sheep which were giving milk, he took him to give food to Jacob his people, and to Israel his heritage.

We were a reproach to our neighbors, a derision and scorn to those being round about us.

Thou wilt not remember against us former iniquities: thy compassions shall quickly anticipate us, for we were greatly weak:

The mountains were covered by its shade,
and the mighty cedars with its branches.

He gave it to Joseph as a witness, when he went out over the land of Egypt; then the words of a strange tongue were sounding in my ears.

“I relieved his shoulder from the burden;
his hands were freed from carrying the basket.

O that My people were hearkening to Me, Israel in My ways would walk.

Also Assur was joined with them: they were an arm to the sons of Lot Silence.

They were destroyed at En-dor;
they became manure for the ground.

Lord, you were good to your land: changing the fate of Jacob.

You were no longer angry: you were turned from the heat of your wrath.

And it will be said of Zion,
“This one and that one were born in her.”
The Most High Himself will establish her.

Free among the dead, as they wounded lying down in the grave, whom thou no more didst remember them, and they were cut off by thy hand.

Before the mountains were born,
before You gave birth to the earth and the world,
from eternity to eternity, You are God.

For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

How great were thy works, O Jehovah! thy thoughts were very deep.

So hath mine eye descried them who were lying in wait for me, - Of my wicked assailants, mine ears, shall hear.

Thy testimonies were very firm: holiness was becoming to thy house, O Jehovah, to length of days.

Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

Unless Jehovah were a help to me, My soul had almost inhabited silence.

When my troubled thoughts were many {within me}, your consolations cheered my soul.

He says, "Do not be stubborn like they were at Meribah, like they were that day at Massah in the wilderness,

Zion heard, and rejoiced; and the daughters of Judah were glad, because of thy judgments, O Jehovah.

Moses and Aaron were among His priests;
Samuel also was among those calling on His name.
They called to Yahweh and He answered them.

Lord our God, You answered them.
You were a forgiving God to them,
an avenger of their sinful actions.

For my days are consumed away like smoke, and my bones are burnt up as it were a firebrand.

I watch, and am even as it were a sparrow that sitteth alone upon the housetop.

For I eat ashes as if they were bread, and mix my drink with my tears,

To hear the groaning of the prisoner, To set free, them who were appointed to death.

For he knows how we were formed, aware that we were made from dust.

He wraps Himself in light as if it were a robe,
spreading out the sky like a canopy,

You covered it with the deep
as if it were a garment;
the waters stood above the mountains.

How thy works were multiplied. O Jehovah! in wisdom thou madest them all: the earth was filled with thy possessions.

When they were few in number,
very few indeed,
and temporary residents in Canaan,

And he took away all food from the land, so that the people were without bread.

His feet were fixed in chains; his neck was put in iron bands;