²¹ But you, Sovereign Lord,
    help me for your name’s sake;^(A)
    out of the goodness of your love,^(B) deliver me.^(C)
22 For I am poor and needy,
    and my heart is wounded within me.

¹⁶ Lord, they came to you in their distress;^(A)
    when you disciplined^(B) them,
    they could barely whisper^(C) a prayer.^[a]

¹² I have revealed and saved and proclaimed—
    I, and not some foreign god^(A) among you.
You are my witnesses,^(B)” declares the Lord, “that I am God.