^47 (A)yet when they ^[a]come to themselves in the land where they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication to You in the land of those who took them captive, ^(B)saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong, we have committed wickedness’;

⁶ And I said: “O my God, I am too ^(A)ashamed and humiliated to lift up my face to You, my God; for ^(B)our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has ^(C)grown up to the heavens. ⁷ Since the days of our fathers to this day ^(D)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities ^(E)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the ^(F)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to ^(G)humiliation,^[a] as it is this day.

¹⁷ “But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger! ¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and will say to him, “Father, ^(A)I have sinned against heaven and before you,

Mourning for the Pierced One

^10 (A)“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will ^(B)look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him ^(C)as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!

^5 (A)we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. ^6 (B)Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land. ⁷ O Lord, ^(C)righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of the unfaithfulness which they have committed against You.

⁸ “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. ^9 (D)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. ¹⁰ We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yes, ^(E)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the ^(F)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him.

²⁸ Because he ^(A)considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.

⁶³ that you may ^(A)remember and be ashamed, ^(B)and never open your mouth anymore because of your shame, when I provide you an atonement for all you have done,” says the Lord God.’ ”