6. All of us are dirty with sin.All the right things we have done are like filthy pieces of cloth.All of us are like dead leaves.Like the wind our sins have carried us away.
7. No one worships you.No one even asks you to help us.So you have turned away from us.And we are destroyed because of our sins.
8. But Lord, you are our father.We are like clay, and you are the potter.Your hands made us all.
9. Lord, don’t continue to be angry with us.Don’t remember our sins forever.Please, look at usbecause we are your people.
10. Your holy cities are empty like the desert.Jerusalem is like a desert;Jerusalem is destroyed.
11. Our ancestors worshiped youin our holy and wonderful Temple.But now it has been burned with fire.All our precious things have been destroyed.
12. When you see these things, will you hold yourself back from helping us, Lord?Will you be silent and punish us beyond what we can stand?