3 even that a man would eat the flesh of his son and the flesh of his daughter.
4 And so he placed them under the hand of all the kings who surround us, in disgrace and desolation among all the people where the Lord has scattered us.
5 And we were brought down low and were not raised up, because we sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.
6 To the Lord our God is justice, but to us and to our fathers is confusion of face, just as on this day.
7 For the Lord has pronounced against us all these evils, which have overcome us.
8 And we have not beseeched the face of the Lord our God, so that we might return, each one of us from our most sinful ways.
9 And the Lord has watched over us for evil and has brought it upon us, because the Lord is just in all his works that he has commanded us,