5. We are brought low, not raised high, because we sinned against the Lord, our God, not listening to his voice.
6. “To the Lord, our God, belongs justice; to us and to our ancestors, to be shamefaced, as on this day.
7. All the evils of which the Lord had warned us have come upon us.
8. We did not entreat the favor of the Lord by turning, each one, from the designs of our evil hearts.
9. The Lord kept watch over the evils, and brought them home to us; for the Lord is just in all the works he commanded us to do,