16 Because of the voice of him who reproaches and reviles,
^aBecause of the enemy and the avenger. ‡

17 ^aAll this has come upon us;
But we have not forgotten You,
Nor have we dealt falsely with Your covenant. ‡

19 But You have severely broken us in ^athe place of jackals,
And covered us ^bwith the shadow of death. ‡

20 If we had forgotten the name of our God,
Or ^astretched out our hands to a foreign god, ‡