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⁹ But You have cast us off and put us to shame, And You do not go out with our armies. ¹⁰ You make us turn back from the enemy, And those who hate us have taken spoil for themselves. ¹¹ You have given us up like sheep intended for food, And have scattered us among the nations. ¹² You sell Your people for next to nothing, And are not enriched by selling them. ¹³ You make us a reproach to our neighbors, A scorn and a derision to those all around us. ¹⁴ You make us a byword among the nations, A shaking of the head among the peoples. ¹⁵ My dishonor is continually before me, And the shame of my face has covered me, ¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles, Because of the enemy and the avenger.

¹⁷ All this has come upon us; But we have not forgotten You, Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant. ¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back, Nor have our steps departed from Your way; ¹⁹ But You have severely broken us in the place of jackals, And covered us with the shadow of death. ²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God, Or stretched out our hands to a foreign god, ²¹ Would not God search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart. ²² Yet for Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. ²³ Awake! Why do You sleep, O Lord? Arise! Do not cast us off forever. ²⁴ Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression? ²⁵ For our soul is bowed down to the dust; Our body clings to the ground. ²⁶ Arise for our help, And redeem us for Your mercies' sake.