17 All this has come upon us, but we have anot forgotten You,
And we have not bdealt falsely with Your covenant.
18 Our heart has not aturned back,
Nor have our steps bdeviated from Your path,
19 Yet You have acrushed us in a place of bjackals
And covered us with cthe shadow of death.
20 If we had aforgotten the name of our God
Or spread our hands to ba strange god,
21 Would not God afind this out?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
22 But afor Your sake we are killed all day long;
We are counted as bsheep for the slaughter.