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* Therefore the Lord hath made good his word , which he pronounced against us , and against our judges that judged Israel , and against our kings , and against our princes , and against the men of Israel and Juda , * To bring upon us great plagues , such as never happened under the whole heaven , as it came to pass in Jerusalem , according to the things that were written in the law of Moses ; * That a man should eat the flesh of his own son , and the flesh of his own daughter . * Moreover he hath delivered them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are round about us , to be as a reproach and desolation among all the people round about , where the Lord hath scattered them . * Thus we were cast down , and not exalted , because we have sinned against the Lord our God , and have not been obedient unto his voice . * To the Lord our God appertaineth righteousness : but unto us and to our fathers open shame , as appeareth this day . * For all these plagues are come upon us , which the Lord hath pronounced against us * Yet have we not prayed before the Lord , that we might turn every one from the imaginations of his wicked heart . * Wherefore the Lord watched over us for evil , and the Lord hath brought it upon us : for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he hath commanded us . * Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice , to walk in the commandments of the Lord , that he hath set before us . * And now , O Lord God of Israel , that hast brought thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand , and high arm , and with signs , and with wonders , and with great power , and hast gotten thyself a name , as appeareth this day : * O Lord our God , we have sinned , we have done ungodly , we have dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances . * Let thy wrath turn from us : for we are but a few left among the heathen , where thou hast scattered us . * Hear our prayers , O Lord , and our petitions , and deliver us for thine own sake , and give us favour in the sight of them which have led us away : * That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God , because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name . * O Lord , look down from thine holy house , and consider us : bow down thine ear , O Lord , to hear us . * Open thine eyes , and behold ; for the dead that are in the graves , whose souls are taken from their bodies , will give unto the Lord neither praise nor righteousness : * But the soul that is greatly vexed , which goeth stooping and feeble , and the eyes that fail , and the hungry soul , will give thee praise and righteousness , O Lord . * Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee , O Lord our God , for the righteousness of our fathers , and of our kings . * For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us , as thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets , saying , * Thus saith the Lord , Bow down your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon : so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto your fathers . * But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord , to serve the king of Babylon , * I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah , and from without Jerusalem , the voice of mirth , and the voice of joy , the voice of the bridegroom , and the voice of the bride : and the whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants . * But we would not hearken unto thy voice , to serve the king of Babylon : therefore hast thou made good the words that thou spakest by thy servants the prophets , namely , that the bones of our kings , and the bones of our fathers , should be taken out of their place . * And , lo , they are cast out to the heat of the day , and to the frost of the night , and they died in great miseries by famine , by sword , and by pestilence . * And the house which is called by thy name hast thou laid waste , as it is to be seen this day , for the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Juda . * O Lord our God , thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness , and according to all that great mercy of thine , * As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel , saying , * If ye 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 . * For I knew that they would not hear me , because it is a stiffnecked people : but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves . * And shall know that I am the Lord their God : for I will give them an heart , and ears to hear : * And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity , and think upon my name , * And return from their stiff neck , and from their wicked deeds : for they shall remember the way of their fathers , which sinned before the Lord . * And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers , Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , and they shall be lords of it : and I will increase them , and they shall not be diminished . * And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God , and they shall be my people : and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them .

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