²⁶ “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.^(A) They killed^(B) your prophets,^(C) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.^(D)

²⁷ So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,^(A) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion^(B) you gave them deliverers,^(C) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.