²² And my face will be turned away from them, and they will make my secret place unholy: violent men will go into it and make it unholy.

¹⁷ I will send them in flight, as from an east wind, before the attacker; I will let them see my back and not my face on the day of their downfall.

¹¹ He says in his heart, God has no memory of me: his face is turned away; he will never see it.

²² You have seen this, O Lord; be not unmoved: O Lord, be not far from me.

¹⁰ O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever?

¹¹ Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

¹⁸ Keep this in mind, O Lord, that your haters have said cruel things, and that your name has been looked down on by a people of evil behaviour.

¹⁹ O give not the soul of your dove to the hawk; let not the life of the poor go out of your memory for ever.

²⁰ Keep in mind your undertaking; for the dark places of the earth are full of pride and cruel acts.

²¹ O let not the crushed be turned back in shame; let the low man and the poor give praise to your name.

²² Up! O God, be the judge of your cause; keep in mind the bitter things which the man of evil behaviour says against you every day.

²³ Keep in mind the voice of your haters; the outcry of those who come against you goes up every day.

²³ And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.

²⁴ In the measure of their unclean ways and their sins, so I did to them; and I kept my face covered from them.