40. Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.
41. Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven, and say:
42. “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43. “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
44. You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
45. You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46. “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47. We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48. Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.