⁶ We have sinned,^(A) even as our ancestors^(B) did;
    we have done wrong and acted wickedly.^(C)

⁵ You come to the help of those who gladly do right,^(A)
    who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
    you were angry.^(B)
    How then can we be saved?
⁶ All of us have become like one who is unclean,^(C)
    and all our righteous^(D) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,^(E)
    and like the wind our sins sweep us away.^(F)
7 No one^(G) calls on your name^(H)
    or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden^(I) your face from us
    and have given us over^(J) to^[a] our sins.

⁷ Although our sins testify^(A) against us,
    do something, Lord, for the sake of your name.^(B)
For we have often rebelled;^(C)
    we have sinned^(D) against you.