40. Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
41. Let us lift up our hearts and handsto God in heaven:
42. “We have transgressed and rebelled,and you have not forgiven.
43. “You have wrapped yourself with anger and pursued us, killing without pity;
44. you have wrapped yourself with a cloudso that no prayer can pass through.
45. You have made us scum and garbageamong the peoples.
46. “All our enemiesopen their mouths against us;
47. panic and pitfall have come upon us,devastation and destruction;
48. my eyes flow with rivers of tearsbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.
49. “My eyes will flow without ceasing,without respite,