7. For for this cause you have put your fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon your name: and we will praise you in our captivity, for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our fathers, that sinned before you.
8. Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God.
9. Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom.
10. How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead,