²⁰ The wild animals^(A) honor me,
    the jackals^(B) and the owls,
because I provide water^(C) in the wilderness
    and streams in the wasteland,
to give drink to my people, my chosen,
²¹     the people I formed^(D) for myself^(E)
    that they may proclaim my praise.^(F)

²² “Yet you have not called on me, Jacob,
    you have not wearied^(G) yourselves for^[a] me, Israel.^(H)

¹⁴ Yet they say to God, ‘Leave us alone!^(A)
    We have no desire to know your ways.^(B)
15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him?
    What would we gain by praying to him?’^(C)

⁴ Do all these evildoers know nothing?^(A)

They devour my people^(B) as though eating bread;
    they never call on the Lord.^(C)

⁷ No one^(A) calls on your name^(B)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden^(C) your face from us
    and have given us over^(D) to^[a] our sins.

²¹ The shepherds^(A) are senseless^(B)
    and do not inquire of the Lord;^(C)
so they do not prosper^(D)
    and all their flock is scattered.^(E)