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.
22. But for you we are in danger of death all the time.People think we are worth no more than sheep to be killed.
23. Wake up, Lord! Why are you sleeping?Get up! Don’t reject us forever.
24. Why do you hide from us?Have you forgotten our pain and troubles?
25. We have been pushed down into the dirt;we are flat on the ground.
26. Get up and help us.Because of your love, save us.