8 O Lord, to us belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
9 Of the Lord our God is the ability to have mercy and to forgive, even though we have rebelled against him
10 and have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God to walk by his laws, which he set before us by the hand of his slaves the prophets.
11 And all Israel transposed thy law, departing by not hearing thy voice; by which the curse has fallen upon us and the oath that is written in the law of Moses, the slave of God, because we have sinned against him.
12 And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke over us and over our judges that governed us, by bringing upon us such a great evil: that such has never been done under the whole heaven as has been done upon Jerusalem.
13 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us, and we never sought the face of the Lord our God, that we might be converted from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
14 And the Lord hastened upon the chastisement and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is just in all his works which he has done, for we did not listen to his voice.