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)

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.

⁴ “See, the enemy is puffed up;
    his desires are not upright—
    but the righteous person^(A) will live by his faithfulness^[a](B)—

⁶ those who turn back from following^(A) the Lord
    and neither seek^(B) the Lord nor inquire^(C) of him.”