17 All this has happened to us,

but we have not forgotten you

or betrayed your covenant.c

18 Our hearts have not turned back;

our steps have not strayed from your path.d

19 But you have crushed us in a haunt of jackals

and have covered us with deepest darkness.e

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God

and spread out our hands to a foreign god,f

21 wouldn’t God have found this out,

since he knows the secrets of the heart?g

22 Because of you we are being put to death all day long;

we are counted as sheep to be slaughtered.h