18. Our hearts are not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Your path,
19. Though You have distressingly broken us in the place of jackals and covered us with deep darkness, even with the shadow of death.
20. If we had forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god,
21. Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22. No, but for Your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. [Rom. 8:35-39.]
23. Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arouse Yourself, cast us not off forever!
24. Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and our oppression?
25. For our lives are bowed down to the dust; our bodies cleave to the ground.
26. Rise up! Come to our help, and deliver us for Your mercy's sake and because of Your steadfast love!