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.

⁸ Yet you, Lord, are our Father.^(K)
    We are the clay, you are the potter;^(L)
    we are all the work of your hand.^(M)
9 Do not be angry^(N) beyond measure, Lord;
    do not remember our sins^(O) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
    for we are all your people.^(P)