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Why are You like a man overcome,
        like a champion who cannot save?
    Yet you, Adonai, are in our midst,
    and we are called by Your Name.
    Do not forsake us!

10 Thus says Adonai to this people:
    How they loved to wander.
    They did not restrain their feet.
    So Adonai does not accept them.
    Now will He remember their iniquity,
        and punish their sins.

11 So Adonai said to me: “Do not pray for the good of this people.

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Why are you like a man taken by surprise,
    like a warrior powerless to save?(A)
You are among(B) us, Lord,
    and we bear your name;(C)
    do not forsake(D) us!

10 This is what the Lord says about this people:

“They greatly love to wander;
    they do not restrain their feet.(E)
So the Lord does not accept(F) them;
    he will now remember(G) their wickedness
    and punish them for their sins.”(H)

11 Then the Lord said to me, “Do not pray(I) for the well-being of this people.

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