1. Then sad at heart, I groaned and wept aloud. With sobs I began to pray:
2. “You are righteous, Lord,and all your deeds are just;All your ways are mercy and fidelity;you are judge of the world.
3. And now, Lord, be mindful of meand look with favor upon me.Do not punish me for my sins,or for my inadvertent offenses,or for those of my ancestors.“They sinned against you,
4. and disobeyed your commandments.So you handed us over to plunder, captivity, and death,to become an object lesson, a byword, and a reproachin all the nations among whom you scattered us.