¹⁷ All this came upon us,
    though we had not forgotten^(A) you;
    we had not been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our hearts had not turned^(B) back;
    our feet had not strayed from your path.
¹⁹ But you crushed^(C) us and made us a haunt for jackals;^(D)
    you covered us over with deep darkness.^(E)

²⁰ If we had forgotten^(F) the name of our God
    or spread out our hands to a foreign god,^(G)
21 would not God have discovered it,
    since he knows the secrets of the heart?^(H)
22 Yet for your sake we face death all day long;
    we are considered as sheep^(I) to be slaughtered.^(J)