3. Some of us ate the flesh of our sons and daughters.
4. God handed them over to be subjects of all the kingdoms around us—objects of insult and outcasts wherever the Lord scattered them.
5. They were brought down and not lifted up, because we sinned against the Lord our God by not listening to his voice.
6. Justice is on the side of the Lord our God, but public shame is upon us and upon our ancestors to this very day.
7. All these horrible things that the Lord had spoken came on us.
8. But we didn’t plead with the Lord so as to turn each one of us from the designs of our wicked hearts.
9. Thus has the Lord kept watch over our wicked deeds and brought this upon us. The Lord is just in every action that he commanded us to do,
10. but we didn’t listen to the Lord’s voice to walk by the commandments that the Lord gave to us.
11. Now Lord God of Israel, you brought your people from Egypt by a powerful hand, by signs and wonders, with great power and an extended arm, and you have made your name famous to this very day.
12. Lord our God, we have sinned. We were ungodly. We have broken all of your commandments.
13. Turn your anger away from us, for only a few of us remain among the nations where you have scattered us.
14. Lord, listen to our prayer and our pleading. For your own sake, set us free and give us favor with those who have brought us into exile
15. so that all the earth might know that you are the Lord our God, since Israel and her children carry your name.
16. Lord, look down on us from your holy house and think of us. Lord, bend your ear and listen.
17. Lord, open your eyes and look upon us. Surely the dead who are in the grave, whose spirit has been taken from their bodies, won’t acknowledge the Lord’s glory and justice!
18. But Lord, the one who is grieved, who goes about weak and bent over, whose eyes are failing and whose spirit is hungering—that one will acknowledge your glory and righteousness.
19. Lord our God, we are not basing our prayer for mercy on any righteous actions of our ancestors and rulers.
20. You’ve sent your anger and wrath on us just as you spoke through your servants the prophets. You said: