Jehovah, by thy favour thou hadst made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face; I was troubled.

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.

For if thou hadst pleasure in sacrifice, I would give it thee: but thou delightest not in burnt-offerings.

To the Overseer. -- 'Concerning the Lily of Testimony,' a secret treasure of David, to teach, in his striving with Aram-Naharaim, and with Aram-Zobah, and Joab turneth back and smiteth Edom in the valley of Salt -- twelve thousand. O God, Thou hadst cast us off, Thou hadst broken us -- hadst been angry! -- Thou dost turn back to us.

Thou hadst given - to them that revere thee - a banner, to float aloft, Because of thy faithfulness. Selah.

Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst not go out with our armies?

For, whom, thou thyself, hadst smitten, they pursued, And, unto the pain of thy wounded ones, they must needs add.

Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:

The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for them; --