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But now you have cast us off and brought us to shame :
 you go not out with our armies.
You have caused us to show our backs to the enemy :
 so that our foes plunder us at will.
You have given us like sheep to be butchered :
 you have scattered us among the nations.
You have sold your people for nothing :
 and made a profitless bargain.
You have made us a laughing-stock to our neighbours :
 mocked and held in derision by those about us.
You have made us a byword among the nations :
 so that the peoples toss their heads in scorn.
My disgrace is before me all the day :
 and shame has covered my face,
At the voice of the slanderer and reviler :
 at the sight of the enemy and avenger.
All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you :
 we have not betrayed your covenant.
Our hearts have not turned back :
 nor have our steps strayed from your paths.
And yet you have crushed us in the haunt of jackals :
 and covered us with the shadow of death.
If we had forgotten the name of our God :
 or stretched out our hands in prayer to some strange god,
Would not God search it out? :
 for he knows the very secrets of the heart.
But for your sake are we killed all the day long :
 we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Rouse yourself, O Lord, why do you sleep? :
 awake, do not cast us off for ever.
Why do you hide your face :
 and forget our misery and our affliction?
Our souls are bowed to the dust :
 our bellies cleave to the ground.
Arise, O Lord, to help us :
 and redeem us for your mercy’s sake.