15. You have set us as a parable among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the peoples.
16. All day long my shame is before me, and the confusion of my face has covered me,
17. before the voice of the reproacher and the commentator, before the face of the adversary and the pursuer.
18. All these things have come upon us, yet we have not forgotten you, and we have not acted unjustly in your covenant.
19. And our heart has not turned back. And you have not diverted our steps from your way.
20. For you humbled us in a place of affliction, and the shadow of death has covered us.
21. If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have extended our hands to a foreign god,
22. will not God find this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart. For, because of you, we are being killed all day long. We are considered as sheep for the slaughter.
23. Rise up. Why do you fall asleep, O Lord? Rise up, and do not reject us in the end.
24. Why do you turn your face away, and why do you forget our needfulness and our tribulation?
25. For our soul has been humbled into the dust. Our belly has been bound to the earth.
26. Rise up, O Lord. Help us and redeem us, because of your name.