16. For thou art our Father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer, from everlasting, is thy name.
17. Why, O Jehovah, hast thou made us to err from thy ways, hast hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18. Thy holy people have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19. We have become like those over whom thou never barest rule, those not called by thy name.