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19 [a]Our hearts have not turned back,
    nor have our steps strayed from your path.

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Footnotes

  1. 44:19 Our hearts have not turned back: Israel’s defeat was not caused by its lack of fidelity.

22 Would not God have discovered this,
    God who knows the secrets of the heart?
23 For you we are slain all the day long,
    considered only as sheep to be slaughtered.(A)

IV

24 Awake! Why do you sleep, O Lord?
    Rise up! Do not reject us forever!(B)
25 Why do you hide your face;(C)
    why forget our pain and misery?
26 For our soul has been humiliated in the dust;(D)
    our belly is pressed to the earth.

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