2 The Lord severely punished the city of Jerusalem, just as he had warned in the Law of Moses. Nothing on earth has ever been as horrible as that destruction.
3 There was so little food that some of us ate our own children.
4 The Lord scattered our people all over the world, where foreign nations ruled over us and insulted and made fun of us.
5 Our country was defeated and humiliated in every way, because we had disobeyed the Lord our God and sinned against him.
6 Our Lord God, we are filled with shame, just as our ancestors were in the past. You were right
7 to punish us terribly, just as you had warned us.
8 Even then we refused to stop our evil ways and turn back to you.