23 And I will take away from you the voice of cheerfulness and the voice of joy, and the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and all the land will be without any trace of its inhabitants.' "
24 And they did not listen to your voice, that they should serve the king of Babylon, and so you have fulfilled your words, which you spoke by the hands of your children the prophets, so that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be carried away from their place.
25 And, behold, they have been cast out into the heat of the sun and the frost of the night, and they have died by means of grievous evils, by famine, and by the sword, and by banishment.
26 And you have set up the temple, in which your name itself was called upon, just as it is on this day, because of the iniquity of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
27 And you have accomplished in us, O Lord our God, according to all your goodness and according to all your great mercy,
28 just as you spoke by the hand of your child Moses, in the day when you commanded him to write your law before the sons of Israel,
29 saying: "If you will not listen to my voice, this great multitude will be changed into the least among the peoples, where I will scatter them.