18. We have not been unfaithful,nor have we disobeyed your commands.
19. Yet you have battered us, leaving us a heap of ruins overrun by wild dogs;you have covered us with darkness.
20. If we had rejected our God,and spread out our hands in prayer to another god,
21. would not God discover it,for he knows one’s thoughts?
22. Yet because of you we are killed all day long;we are treated like sheep at the slaughtering block.
23. Rouse yourself! Why do you sleep, O Lord?Wake up! Do not reject us forever!
24. Why do you look the other way,and ignore the way we are oppressed and mistreated?
25. For we lie in the dirt,with our bellies pressed to the ground.
26. Rise up and help us!Rescue us because of your loyal love!