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In God we make our boast all day long, and we will praise your name forever.
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But now you have rejected and humbled us; you no longer go out with our armies.
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You made us retreat before the enemy, and our adversaries have plundered us.
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You gave us up to be devoured like sheep and have scattered us among the nations.
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You sold your people for a pittance, gaining nothing from their sale.
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You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, the scorn and derision of those around us.
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You have made us a byword among the nations; the peoples shake their heads at us.
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I live in disgrace all day long, and my face is covered with shame
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at the taunts of those who reproach and revile me, because of the enemy, who is bent on revenge.
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All this came upon us, though we had not forgotten you; we had not been false to your covenant.
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Our hearts had not turned back; our feet had not strayed from your path.
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But you crushed us and made us a haunt for jackals; you covered us over with deep darkness.
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If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
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would not God have discovered it, since he knows the secrets of the heart?