3. For you are enthroned in eternity, but we will pass away in time.
4. O Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, listen now to the prayer of the dead of Israel and of their sons, who have sinned before you and have not listened to the voice of the Lord their God, and have joined themselves to evil.
5. Remember not the iniquities of our fathers, but remember your hand and your name at this time.
6. For you are the Lord our God, and we will praise you, O Lord.
7. And for this reason, you have imparted your fear into our hearts, and also, so that we may call upon your name and may praise you in our captivity, for we are converted from the iniquity of our fathers, who sinned before you.
8. And, behold, we are still in our captivity on this day, where you have scattered us into disgrace, and into slander, and into sin, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, who withdrew from you, O Lord our God.
9. Listen, O Israel, to the commandments of life! Pay attention, so that you may learn prudence!
10. How is it, O Israel, that you are in the land of your enemies,
11. that you have grown old in a foreign land, that you are defiled with the dead, that you are regarded as among those who are descending into hell?