5. You assist those who delight in doing what is right,who observe your commandments.Look, you were angry because we violated them continually. How then can we be saved?
6. We are all like one who is unclean,all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight.We all wither like a leaf;our sins carry us away like the wind.
7. No one invokes your name,or makes an effort to take hold of you. For you have rejected us and handed us over to our own sins.
8. Yet, Lord, you are our father.We are the clay, and you are our potter;we are all the product of your labor.
9. Lord, do not be too angry!Do not hold our sins against us continually!Take a good look at your people, at all of us!
10. Your chosen cities have become a desert;Zion has become a desert,Jerusalem is a desolate ruin.