Isaiah 63:17-19

New International Reader's Version

¹⁷ Lord, why do you let us wander away from you?
    Why do you let us become so stubborn
    that we don’t respect you?
Come back and help us.
    We are the tribes that belong to you.
¹⁸ For a little while your holy people possessed the land.
    But now our enemies have torn your temple down.
¹⁹ We are like people you never ruled over.
    We are like those who don’t belong to you.