16. because of the voice of the taunter and the reviler, because of the enemy and the avenger.
17. All this has befallen us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.
18. Our heart has not turned back, and our steps have not turned aside from your way.
19. But you have crushed us in a place of jackals, and have covered us with deep shadow.
20. If we had forgotten the name of our God, or had spread out our hands in prayer to a foreign god,
21. would not God discover this, for he knows the secrets of the heart?
22. Rather, on account of you we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for slaughter.
23. Wake up! Why do you sleep, O Lord? Awake! Do not reject forever.
24. Why do you hide your face? Have you forgotten our misery and our oppression?
25. For our soul is bowed down to the dust. Our body clings to the ground.
26. Rise up! Be a help for us, and redeem us for the sake of your loyal love.