15. so that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, and because your name has been invoked over Israel and over his posterity.
16. Gaze upon us, O Lord, from your holy home, and incline your ear, and heed us.
17. Open your eyes and see, because the dead, who are in the underworld, whose spirit has been taken away from their vital organs, will not give honor and justification to the Lord.
18. But the soul that is sorrowful for the greatness of evil, approaches bowed down and weak, and the failing eyes and the hungering soul give glory and justice to you, the Lord.
19. For it is not according to the righteousness of our fathers that we pour out our petitions and beg mercy in your sight, O Lord our God,
20. but because you have sent your wrath and your fury upon us, just as you have spoken by the hand of your children the prophets, saying:
21. "Thus says the Lord, 'Bow down your shoulder and your neck, and do work for the king of Babylon, and settle in the land which I gave to your fathers,