15 You have made us a byword among the nations, head-wagging among the peoples.
16 All day my disgrace is before me, and my face is covered with shame—
17 because of the sound of taunting and reviling from the face of a vengeful enemy.
18 All this came upon us, though we did not forget You, nor were we false to Your covenant.
19 Our heart did not turn back, nor did our steps stray from Your path.
20 Yet You crushed us in a place of jackals, covered us with the shadow of death.
21 If we had forgotten the Name of our God or stretched our hands to a foreign god,