1. “So the Lord carried out the warning he had uttered against us: against our judges, who governed Israel, against our kings and princes, and against the people of Israel and Judah.
2. Nowhere under heaven has anything been done like what he did in Jerusalem, as was written in the law of Moses:
3. that we would each eat the flesh of our sons, each the flesh of our daughters.
4. He has made us subject to all the kingdoms around us, an object of reproach and horror among all the peoples around us, where the Lord has scattered us.
5. We are brought low, not raised high, because we sinned against the Lord, our God, not listening to his voice.