9 But you have rejected and humiliated us;

you do not march out with our armies.w

10 You make us retreat from the foe,

and those who hate us

have taken plunder for themselves.x

11 You hand us over to be eaten like sheep

and scatter us among the nations.y

12 You sell your people for nothing;

you make no profit from selling them.z

13 You make us an object of reproach to our neighbors,

a source of mockery and ridicule to those around us.aa

14 You make us a joke among the nations,

a laughingstockC among the peoples.ab

15 My disgrace is before me all day long,

and shame has covered my face,a

16 because of the tauntsA of the scorner and reviler,

because of the enemy and avenger.b

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