17. Why hast thou made us to err, O Lord, from thy ways: why hast thou hardened our heart, that we should not fear thee? return for the sake of thy servants, the tribes of thy inheritance.
18. They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19. We are become as in the beginning, when thou didst not rule over us, and when we were not called by thy name.