40. Let us test and examine our ways, and let us return to the Lord!
41. Let us lift up our hearts and our hands [and then with them mount up in prayer] to God in heaven:
42. We have transgressed and rebelled and You have not pardoned.
43. You have covered Yourself with wrath and pursued and afflicted us; You have slain without pity.
44. You have covered Yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can pass through.
45. You have made us offscouring and refuse among the nations.
46. All our enemies have gaped at us and railed against us.
47. Fear and pitfall have come upon us, devastation and destruction.