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.
11. And now, O Lord God of Israel, who has led your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with your great power, and with an exalted arm, and has made a name for yourself, just as on this day,
12. we have sinned, we become impious, we have acted unjustly, O Lord our God, against all your principles.
13. May your wrath be turned away from us because, having been forsaken, we are few among the irreligious where you have scattered us.
14. Heed, O Lord, our petitions and our prayers, and deliver us for your own sake, and grant that we may find favor before the face of those who have led us away,
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,
22. because, if you will not listen to the voice of the Lord your God, to serve the king of Babylon, I will cause you to depart from the cities of Judah and from the gates of Jerusalem.
23. And I will take away from you the voice of cheerfulness and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and all the land will be without any trace of its inhabitants.' "
24. And they did not listen to your voice, that they should serve the king of Babylon, and so you have fulfilled your words, which you spoke by the hands of your children the prophets, so that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be carried away from their place.
25. And, behold, they have been cast out into the heat of the sun and the frost of the night, and they have died by means of grievous evils, by famine, and by the sword, and by banishment.