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1 Therefore the Lord hath made good his word, which he pronounced against us, and against our judges that
judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Juda,
2 To bring upon us great plagues, such as never happened under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in
Jerusalem, according to the things that were written in the law of Moses;
4 Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us, to be
as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about, where the Lord hath scattered them.
5 Thus we were cast down, and not exalted, because we have sinned against the Lord our God, and have not
been obedient unto his voice.
6 To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness: but unto us and to our fathers open shame, as appeareth
this day.
8 Yet have we not prayed before the Lord, that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked
heart.
9 Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil, and the Lord hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is righteous
in all his works which he hath commanded us.
10 Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before
us.
11 And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand,
and high arm, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast gotten thyself a name,
as appeareth this day:
12 O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.
13 Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.
14 Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us for thine own sake, and give us favour in
the sight of them which have led us away:
15 That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called
by thy name.
16 O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.
17 Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies,
will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:
18 But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the
hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.
19 Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of
our fathers, and of our kings.
20 For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets,
saying,
21 Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the
land that I gave unto your fathers.
23 I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and
the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be
desolate of inhabitants.
24 But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore hast thou made good
the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the
bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their place.
25 And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and to the frost of the night, and they died in great
miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
26 And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste, as it is to be seen this day, for the
wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda.
27 O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy
of thine,
28 As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the
children of Israel, saying,
29 If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among
the nations, where I will scatter them.
30 For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their
captivities they shall remember themselves.
33 And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their
fathers, which sinned before the Lord.