¹⁵ When you spread out your hands^(A) in prayer,
    I hide^(B) my eyes from you;
even when you offer many prayers,
    I am not listening.^(C)

Your hands^(D) are full of blood!^(E)

⁸ In a surge of anger^(A)
    I hid^(B) my face from you for a moment,
but with everlasting kindness^(C)
    I will have compassion^(D) on you,”
    says the Lord your Redeemer.^(E)

¹⁸ Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.