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: