2. Nowhere under heaven has anything been done like what he did in Jerusalem, as was written in the law of Moses:
3. that we would each eat the flesh of our sons, each the flesh of our daughters.
4. He has made us subject to all the kingdoms around us, an object of reproach and horror among all the peoples around us, where the Lord has scattered us.
5. We are brought low, not raised high, because we sinned against the Lord, our God, not listening to his voice.
6. “To the Lord, our God, belongs justice; to us and to our ancestors, to be shamefaced, as on this day.
7. All the evils of which the Lord had warned us have come upon us.
8. We did not entreat the favor of the Lord by turning, each one, from the designs of our evil hearts.
9. The Lord kept watch over the evils, and brought them home to us; for the Lord is just in all the works he commanded us to do,
10. but we did not listen to his voice, or follow the precepts of the Lord which he had set before us.
11. “And now, Lord, God of Israel, who led your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, with signs and wonders and great might, and with an upraised arm, so that you have made for yourself a name to the present day:
12. we have sinned, we have committed sacrilege, we have violated all your statutes, Lord, our God.
13. Withdraw your anger from us, for we are left few in number among the nations where you have scattered us.
14. Hear, Lord, our prayer of supplication, and deliver us for your own sake: grant us favor in the sight of those who brought us into exile,
15. that the whole earth may know that you are the Lord, our God, and that Israel and his descendants bear your name.