The Lord said, “I will bring your enemies back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the [Red] Sea,

O love the Lord, all you His godly ones!
The Lord preserves the faithful [those with moral and spiritual integrity]
And fully repays the [self-righteousness of the] arrogant.

Let those be ashamed and dishonored who seek my life;
Let those be turned back [in defeat] and humiliated who plot evil against me.

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

Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps wandered from Your path,

Every one of them has turned aside and fallen away;
Together they have become filthy and corrupt;
There is no one who does good, no, not even one.

He will pay back the evil to my enemies;
In Your faithfulness destroy them.

Then my enemies will turn back in the day when I call;
This I know, that God is for me.

Let them be turned back because of their shame and disgrace
Who say, “Aha, aha!”

Why do You withdraw Your hand, even Your right hand [from judging the enemy]?
Remove Your hand from Your chest, destroy them!

The sons of Ephraim were armed as archers and carrying bows,
Yet they turned back in the day of battle.

Again and again they tempted God,
And distressed the Holy One of Israel.

They turned back and acted unfaithfully like their fathers;
They were twisted like a warped bow [that will not respond to the archer’s aim].

His priests [Hophni and Phinehas] fell by the sword,
And His widows could not weep.

He drove His enemies backward;
He subjected them to lasting shame and dishonor.

O Lord, You have [at last] shown favor to Your land [of Canaan];
You have restored [from Babylon] the captives of Jacob (Israel).

Also, You have turned back the edge of his sword
And have not made him [strong enough] to stand in battle.

You turn man back to dust,
And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

He has turned back their own wickedness upon them
And will destroy them by means of their own evil;
The Lord our God will wipe them out.

He also loved cursing, and it came [back] to him;
He did not delight in blessing, so it was far from him.