2 Nowhere else on earth have such things happened as happened in Jerusalem when the Lord carried out the threats written in the Law of Moses.
3 Things were so bad that we even ate the flesh of our own sons and daughters.
4 The Lord scattered our people, handing us over to the control of all the nations around us, and they looked on us with reproach and horror.
5 We sinned against the Lord our God and refused to obey him. Therefore our nation was conquered, instead of being victorious.
6 “The Lord our God is always righteous, but we and our ancestors are still burdened with our guilt.
7 Even though the Lord punished us as he had threatened,
8 we still did not turn to him and pray that we might abandon our evil thoughts.