^9 (A)he has blocked my ways with blocks of stones;
    he has made my paths crooked.

¹⁷ O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
    and ^(A)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
^(B)Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes of your heritage.

⁶ Therefore ^(A)I will hedge up her^[a] way with thorns,
    and ^(B)I will build a wall against her,
    so that she cannot find her paths.

^11 (A)he turned aside my steps and ^(B)tore me to pieces;
    ^(C)he has made me desolate;

^28 (A)his breath is ^(B)like an overflowing stream
    that reaches up to the neck;
to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction,
    and to place on the jaws of the peoples ^(C)a bridle that leads astray.