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.