19. For we do not present our supplication before you, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our kings.
20. For you have sent your wrath and your indignation upon us, as you have spoken by your servants the prophets, saying,
21. Thus says the Lord, Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.
22. But if you⌃ will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the king of Babylon,
23. I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah, and from without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the whole land shall be desolate without inhabitant.
24. But we would not hearken to your voice, to serve the king of Babylon: therefore have you made good your words that you spoke by your servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of their places.
25. And, behold, they are cast out to the heat by day, and to the frost by night, and they died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
26. And the house which is called by your name have you laid waste, as at this day, for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
27. Yet, O Lord our God, you have dealt with us after all your kindness, and according to all that great mercy of your,
28. as you spoke by your servant Moses in the day when you did command him to write your law before the children of Israel, saying,
29. If you⌃ will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them.
30. For I know that they will not hear me, because it is a stiff-necked people: but in the land of their captivity they shall lay it to heart,
31. and shall know that I am the Lord their God: and I will give them a heart, and ears to hear:
32. and they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name,