²³ Lord, I know that people’s lives are not their own;
    it is not for them to direct their steps.^(A)
24 Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure—
    not in your anger,^(B)
    or you will reduce me to nothing.^(C)
25 Pour out your wrath on the nations^(D)
    that do not acknowledge you,
    on the peoples who do not call on your name.^(E)
For they have devoured^(F) Jacob;
    they have devoured him completely
    and destroyed his homeland.^(G)