17. All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
18. Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
19. But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.
20. If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
21. would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?