17. Why have you allowed us to stray from your ways, O Lord? Why have you hardened our heart, so that we do not fear you? Return, for the sake of your servants, the tribes of your inheritance.
18. They have possessed your holy people as if it were nothing. Our enemies have trampled your sanctuary.
19. We have become as we were in the beginning, when you did not rule over us, and when we were not called by your name.