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,
10. and we have not listened to his own voice, so as to walk according to the teachings of the Lord, which he has set before our face.