1. “So the Lord carried out the threat he had made against us and against our judges, our kings, our rulers, and the people of Israel and Judah.
2. Nowhere else on earth have such things happened as happened in Jerusalem when the Lord carried out the threats written in the Law of Moses.
3. Things were so bad that we even ate the flesh of our own sons and daughters.
4. The Lord scattered our people, handing us over to the control of all the nations around us, and they looked on us with reproach and horror.
5. We sinned against the Lord our God and refused to obey him. Therefore our nation was conquered, instead of being victorious.
6. “The Lord our God is always righteous, but we and our ancestors are still burdened with our guilt.