1. O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, the soul in anguish, the troubled spirit, cries to you.
2. Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; for you are a merciful God: yes, have mercy upon us, because we have sinned before you.
3. For you sit as king for ever, and we perish evermore.
4. O Lord Almighty, you God of Israel, hear now the prayer of the dead Israelites, and of the children of them which were sinners before you, that hearkened not to the voice of you their God: for the which cause these plagues clave to us.
5. Remember not the iniquities of our fathers: but remember your power and your name now at this time.
6. For you are the Lord our God, and you, O Lord, will we praise.
7. For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.
8. Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.
9. Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
10. How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,