14. You made us a joke to the other nations;people shake their heads.
15. I am always in disgrace,and I am covered with shame.
16. My enemy is getting evenwith insults and curses.
17. All these things have happened to us,but we have not forgotten youor failed to keep our agreement with you.
18. Our hearts haven’t turned away from you,and we haven’t stopped following you.
19. But you crushed us in this place where wild dogs live,and you covered us with deep darkness.
20. If we had forgotten our Godor lifted our hands in prayer to foreign gods,
21. God would have known,because he knows what is in our hearts.