²⁶ “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.^(A) They killed^(B) your prophets,^(C) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.^{(D) 27} So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,^(E) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion^(F) you gave them deliverers,^(G) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

³³ In all that has happened to us, you have remained righteous;^(A) you have acted faithfully, while we acted wickedly.^(B)