1. " 'For this reason, the Lord our God has fulfilled his word, which he has spoken to us, and to our judges, who have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our leaders, and to all Israel and Judah.
2. And so the Lord has brought upon us great evils, such as never before happened under heaven, (but which have come to pass in Jerusalem according to what was written in the law of Moses)
3. even that a man would eat the flesh of his son and the flesh of his daughter.
4. And so he placed them under the hand of all the kings who surround us, in disgrace and desolation among all the people where the Lord has scattered us.
5. And we were brought down low and were not raised up, because we sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.
6. To the Lord our God is justice, but to us and to our fathers is confusion of face, just as on this day.
7. For the Lord has pronounced against us all these evils, which have overcome us.
8. And we have not beseeched the face of the Lord our God, so that we might return, each one of us from our most sinful ways.
9. And the Lord has watched over us for evil and has brought it upon us, because the Lord is just in all his works that he has commanded us,