I say then, Has God  ¹cast away His people? Absolutely not! For I also am an Israelite, out of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage concerning Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel?

“Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars; and I am left alone, and they are seeking my  ¹life.”

But what does the divine answer say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to  ¹Baal.”

In the same way then at the present time also there has come into being a remnant according to the selection of grace.

But if by grace, it is no longer out of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace.

What then? That which Israel is seeking after, this it has not obtained, but the chosen have obtained it, and the rest have been hardened;

As it is written, “God gave them a spirit of deep sleep, eyes to see not and ears to hear not, until this very day.”

And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a retribution to them;

Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see; and bend their back continually.”

To the choir director. A  ¹Maschil of the sons of Korah

 ¹As the hart pants
After the streams of water,
So my soul  ²pants
For You, O  ³God.

My soul thirsts for God,
For the living God.
When will I come and appear
Before God?

My tears have been my food
Day and night,
While they say to me all day long,
Where is your God?

These things I  ¹remember,
And I pour out my soul within me:
That I passed through with the throng;
I led them to the house of God
With the voice of a joyous shout and  ²praise,
The festal multitude.

Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I will yet  ¹praise Him
For the salvation of His  ²countenance.

O my God, my soul is cast down within me;
Therefore I  ¹remember You
From the land of the Jordan and the Hermons,
From Mount Mizar.

Deep calls unto deep
At the sound of Your water spouts;
All Your waves and Your billows
Pass over me.

By day Jehovah commands
His lovingkindness,
And by night His song is with me,
A prayer to the God of my life.

I say to God my rock,
Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning
Because of the oppression of the enemy?

As with a shattering in my bones,
My adversaries reproach me,
While they say to me all day long,
Where is your God?

Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him,
The salvation of my countenance and my God.

 ¹Render judgment for me, O God;
And plead my cause
Before an unfaithful nation;
From the deceitful and unjust man
Deliver me.

For You are the God of my protection.
Why have You rejected me?
Why do I go about mourning
Because of the oppression of the enemy?

Send forth Your  ¹light and Your truth;
They will lead me;
They will bring me to Your holy mountain
And to Your tabernacles.

And I will go to the  ¹altar of God,
To God my exceeding joy;
And I will praise You with the harp,
O God, my God.

Why are you cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God, for I will yet praise Him,
The salvation of my countenance and my God.

To the choir director. Of the sons of Korah. A  ¹Maschil

 ¹O God, we have heard with our ears;
Our fathers have recounted it to us,
The work You did in their days,
In the days of old.

You, by Your hand,
Have dispossessed nations, but You have planted  ¹our fathers;
You afflicted peoples, but You spread  ¹our fathers forth.

For they did not possess the land by their sword,
Nor did their arm save them;
Rather it was Your right hand and Your arm,
And the light of Your countenance;
For You delighted in them.

You are my King, O God;
Command salvation for Jacob.

Through You we thrust back our adversaries;
Through Your name we trample those who rise up against us.

For I will not trust in my bow,
Nor will my sword save me.

But You save us from our adversaries,
And You put to shame those who hate us.

In God we boast all day long,
And we praise Your name forever. Selah

 ¹Nevertheless You have rejected us and humiliated us,
And You have not gone forth with our armies.

You have caused us to turn back from the adversary,
And those who hate us take spoil for themselves.

You have given us over like sheep to be eaten
And have scattered us among the nations.

You have sold Your people for nothing
And have not gone high on their price.

You have made us a reproach to our neighbors,
A mocking and a derision to those around us.

You have made us a proverb among the nations,
Something to shake the head at among the peoples.

All day long my humiliation is before me,
And the shame of my face covers me,

Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
Because of the presence of the enemy and of him who avenges himself.

All this has come upon us; but we have  ¹not forgotten You,
Nor have we been false to Your covenant.

Our heart has not turned back,
Nor have our steps deviated from Your way;

But You have crushed us in the place of jackals
And have covered us with the shadow of death.

If we have forgotten the name of our God
Or spread out our hands to a strange god,

Will God not search this out?
For He knows the hidden things of the heart.

But for Your sake we are slain all day long;
We are considered as sheep for slaughter.

Awake! Why are You sleeping, O  ¹Lord?
Arise! Do not reject us forever.

Why do You hide Your face
And forget our affliction and our oppression?

For our soul bows down to the dust;
Our body clings to the earth.

Rise up; be our help,
And redeem us for Your lovingkindness' sake.

To the choir director: according to  ¹Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. A  ²Maschil; a song of  ³love

My heart overflows with a good matter;
I speak what I have composed concerning the  ¹King.
My  ²tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

You are  ¹fairer than the sons of men;
Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.

Gird Your sword upon Your thigh, O mighty One,
In Your  ¹majesty and Your  ¹splendor.

And in Your splendor ride on  ¹victoriously
Because of truth and  ²meekness and righteousness;
And let Your right hand  ³teach You  ⁴awesome deeds.

Your arrows are sharp:
The peoples fall under You;
The arrows are in the heart of the King's enemies.

Your throne, O  ¹God, is forever and ever;
The  ²scepter of uprightness is the scepter of Your  ³kingdom.

You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness;
Therefore God,  ¹Your God, has anointed You
With the  ²oil of gladness above Your  ²companions.

All Your  ¹garments smell of myrrh and aloes, of cassia;
From  ²palaces of ivory, harpstrings have made You glad.

 ¹The  ²daughters of kings are among Your most prized;
The  ³queen stands at Your right hand in the  ⁴gold of Ophir.

Hear, O  ¹daughter, and see; and incline your ear;
And forget your people and your father's house;

Thus the King will desire your  ¹beauty.
Because He is your  ²Lord,
Worship Him.

And the  ¹daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
The  ¹rich among the people will entreat your favor.

The king's  ¹daughter is all glorious within the royal abode;
Her garment is a  ²woven work inwrought with gold.

She will be led to the King in  ¹embroidered clothing;
The  ²virgins behind her, her companions,
Will be brought to You.

They will be led with rejoicing and exultation;
They will enter the King's  ¹palace.

In the place of Your  ¹fathers will be Your  ¹sons;
You will make them princes in all the earth.

I will cause Your  ¹name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the peoples will praise You forever and ever.