7. But You have saved us from our foes and have put them to shame who hate us.
8. In God we have made our boast all the day long, and we will give thanks to Your name forever. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
9. But now You have cast us off and brought us to dishonor, and You go not out with our armies.
10. You make us to turn back from the enemy, and they who hate us take spoil for themselves.
11. You have made us like sheep intended for mutton and have scattered us in exile among the nations.
12. You sell Your people for nothing, and have not increased Your wealth by their price.
13. You have made us the taunt of our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are round about us.
14. You make us a byword among the nations, a shaking of the heads among the people.
15. My dishonor is before me all day long, and shame has covered my face
16. At the words of the taunter and reviler, by reason of the enemy and the revengeful.
17. All this is come upon us, yet have we not forgotten You, neither have we been false to Your covenant [which You made with our fathers].
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.