13 And pray for us also to the Lord our God, for we have sinned against the Lord our God, and the madness of our sin has not been driven away from us even to this day.
14 And read this book, which we have sent to you to be recited in the temple of the Lord, on solemn days and on other suitable days.
15 And you will say, 'To the Lord our God is justice, but to us is confusion of our face, just as it is this day for all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,
16 even for our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers.
17 We have sinned before the Lord our God and we have not believed, lacking confidence in him.
18 And we have not been submissive to him, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, so as to walk in his commandments, which he has given to us.
19 From the day that he led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were unfaithful to the Lord our God, and, having been scattered, we fell away. We did not listen to his voice.