²⁶ “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.^(A) They killed^(B) your prophets,^(C) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.^{(D) 27} So you delivered them into the hands of their enemies,^(E) who oppressed them. But when they were oppressed they cried out to you. From heaven you heard them, and in your great compassion^(F) you gave them deliverers,^(G) who rescued them from the hand of their enemies.

¹⁰ we have not obeyed the Lord our God or kept the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.^{(A) 11} All Israel has transgressed^(B) your law^(C) and turned away, refusing to obey you.

“Therefore the curses^(D) and sworn judgments^(E) written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned^(F) against you. ¹² You have fulfilled^(G) the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster.^(H) Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like^(I) what has been done to Jerusalem.^{(J) 13} Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come on us, yet we have not sought the favor of the Lord^(K) our God by turning from our sins and giving attention to your truth.^{(L) 14} The Lord did not hesitate to bring the disaster^(M) on us, for the Lord our God is righteous in everything he does;^(N) yet we have not obeyed him.^(O)