4. My peril is close at hand.
5. I have heard from my father that you, Lord, chose Israel from among all nations and our fathers from among all their former ancestors, to possess them as an everlasting inheritance, and you have done for them just as you said.
6. We have sinned in your sight, and therefore you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies,
7. for we have worshipped their gods. You are just, O Lord.
8. And now they are not content to oppress us with a very difficult servitude, but attributing the strength of their hands to the power of their idols,
9. they want to alter your promises, and erase your inheritance, and close the mouths of those who praise you, and extinguish the glory of your temple and your altar,
10. so that they may open the mouths of the nations, and praise the strength of idols, and proclaim a worldly king in perpetuity.
11. Lord, do not hand over your scepter to that which does not exist, lest they laugh at our ruin, but turn their counsel upon themselves and destroy him who has begun to rage against us.