⁴ Hear us, our God, for we are despised.^(A) Turn their insults back on their own heads. Give them over as plunder in a land of captivity. ⁵ Do not cover up their guilt^(B) or blot out their sins from your sight,^(C) for they have thrown insults in the face of^[a] the builders.

¹⁹ Remember^(A) me with favor, my God, for all I have done for these people.

⁹ They were all trying to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will get too weak for the work, and it will not be completed.”

But I prayed, “Now strengthen my hands.”

¹⁴ Remember^(A) me for this, my God, and do not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the house of my God and its services.