²⁰ If I have sinned, what have I done to you,^(A)
    you who see everything we do?
Why have you made me your target?^(B)
    Have I become a burden to you?^[a](C)

¹² He drew his bow^(A)
    and made me the target^(B) for his arrows.^(C)

⁶ Your righteousness^(A) is like the highest mountains,^(B)
    your justice like the great deep.^(C)
    You, Lord, preserve both people and animals.^(D)

¹¹ “Therefore I will not keep silent;^(A)
    I will speak out in the anguish^(B) of my spirit,
    I will complain^(C) in the bitterness of my soul.^(D)
12 Am I the sea,^(E) or the monster of the deep,^(F)
    that you put me under guard?^(G)

²⁴ For sighing^(A) has become my daily food;^(B)
    my groans^(C) pour out like water.^(D)

⁴ How long,^(A) Lord God Almighty,
    will your anger smolder^(B)
    against the prayers of your people?

¹² You will make them turn their backs^(A)
    when you aim at them with drawn bow.

⁶ If you sin, how does that affect him?
    If your sins are many, what does that do to him?^(A)

²⁷ And they will go to others and say,
    ‘I have sinned,^(A) I have perverted what is right,^(B)
    but I did not get what I deserved.^(C)