13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to those that are round about us.
14. Thou makest us a byword among the Gentiles, a shaking of the head among the people.
15. My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face has covered me,
16. for the voice of him that reproaches and blasphemes by reason of the enemy and of the avenger.
17. All this is come upon us; yet we have not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18. Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way
19. though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons and covered us with the shadow of death.
20. If we have forgotten the name of our God or stretched out our hands to a strange god,