5. Thus were they cast down, and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not hearkening to his voice.
6. To the Lord our God belongs righteousness: but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.
7. For all these plagues are come upon us, which the Lord has pronounced against us.
8. Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord, in turning every one from the thoughts of his wicked heart.
9. Therefore has the Lord kept watch over the plagues, and the Lord has brought them upon us; for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us.
10. Yet we have not hearkened to his voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that he has set before us.
11. And now, O Lord, you God of Israel, that have brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten yourself a name, as at this day:
12. O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have dealt unrighteously in all your ordinances.
13. Let your wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among the heathen, where you have scattered us.
14. Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake, and give us favor in the sight of them which have led us away captive:
15. that all the earth may know that you are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by your name.
16. O Lord, look down from your holy house, and consider us: incline your ear, O Lord, and hear:
17. open your eyes, and behold: for the dead that are in the grave, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness:
18. but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give you glory and righteousness, O Lord.
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.