Psalm 44:17-22

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁷ All this has come upon us,
    yet we have not forgotten you,
    or been false to your covenant.
¹⁸ Our heart has not turned back,
    nor have our steps departed from your way,
¹⁹ yet you have broken us in the haunt of jackals,
    and covered us with deep darkness.

²⁰ If we had forgotten the name of our God,
    or spread out our hands to a strange god,
²¹ would not God discover this?
    For he knows the secrets of the heart.
²² Because of you we are being killed all day long,
    and accounted as sheep for the slaughter.