8. Yet, O Lord, You are our Father; we are the clay, and You our Potter, and we all are the work of Your hand.
9. Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord, or [seriously] remember iniquity forever. Behold, consider, we beseech You, we are all Your people.
10. Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11. Our holy and our beautiful house, [the temple] where our fathers praised You, is burned with fire, and all our pleasant and desirable places are in ruins.
12. Considering these [calamities], will You restrain Yourself, O Lord [and not come to our aid]? Will You keep silent and not command our deliverance but humble and afflict us exceedingly?