30. Yet for many years You had patience with them,And testified against them by Your Spirit in Your prophets.Yet they would not listen;Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
31. Nevertheless in Your great mercyYou did not utterly consume them nor forsake them;For You are God, gracious and merciful.
32. “Now therefore, our God,The great, the mighty, and awesome God,Who keeps covenant and mercy:Do not let all the trouble seem small before YouThat has come upon us,Our kings and our princes,Our priests and our prophets,Our fathers and on all Your people,From the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.
33. However You are just in all that has befallen us;For You have dealt faithfully,But we have done wickedly.
34. Neither our kings nor our princes,Our priests nor our fathers,Have kept Your law,Nor heeded Your commandments and Your testimonies,With which You testified against them.
35. For they have not served You in their kingdom,Or in the many good things that You gave them,Or in the large and rich land which You set before them;Nor did they turn from their wicked works.
36. “Here we are, servants today!And the land that You gave to our fathers,To eat its fruit and its bounty,Here we are, servants in it!