²⁸ But as for me, it is good to be near God.^(A)
    I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;^(B)
    I will tell of all your deeds.^(C)

²² for they did not believe in God
    or trust^(A) in his deliverance.

³ Lord, do not your eyes^(A) look for truth?
    You struck^(B) them, but they felt no pain;
    you crushed them, but they refused correction.^(C)
They made their faces harder than stone^(D)
    and refused to repent.^(E)

²¹ I warned you when you felt secure,^(A)
    but you said, ‘I will not listen!’
This has been your way from your youth;^(B)
    you have not obeyed^(C) me.