⁸ Hope of Israel,
    its deliverer in time of trouble,
why are you like a stranger^[a] in the land,
    like a traveler who sets up his tent for a night?
⁹ Why are you like a man taken by surprise,
    like a strong man who can’t deliver?
You are among us, Lord,
    and your name is the one by which we’re called.
        Don’t abandon us!

¹⁰ This is what the Lord says to these people:
    “Yes, they do love to wander,
        and they haven’t restrained their feet.
So the Lord won’t accept them now.
    He will remember their iniquity
        and punish their sin.”