5. We need your help to push our enemies back. Only in your name can we trample those who attacked us.
6. I don’t put my trust in my bow. My sword cannot save me.
7. You are the one who saved us from our enemies. You are the one who put our enemies to shame.
8. We have praised you all day long, and we will praise your name forever. Selah
9. But you left us and put us to shame. You did not go with us into battle.
10. You let our enemies push us back. You let them take our wealth.
11. You gave us away like sheep to be killed and eaten. You scattered us among the nations.
12. You sold your people for nothing. You did not even argue over the price.
13. You made us a joke to our neighbors. They laugh and make fun of us.
14. You made us one of the stories that people love to tell. People all over the world laugh at us and shake their heads.
15. All I can think about is my shame. Just look at my face, and you will see it.
16. All I can hear are the jokes and insults of my enemies, as I watch them take their revenge.
17. We have not forgotten you. But you do all those things to us. We did not break the agreement you gave us.
18. We did not turn away from you. We did not stop following you.
19. But you crushed us in this home of jackals. You left us in this place as dark as death.
20. Did we forget the name of our God? Did we pray to foreign gods?