⁴³ Then I said concerning her who had grown old in adulteries, ‘Will they commit harlotry with her now, and she with them?’

¹⁶ “O Lord, ^(A)according to all Your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, ^(B)Your holy mountain; because for our sins, ^(C)and for the iniquities of our fathers, ^(D)Jerusalem and Your people ^(E)are a reproach to all those around us.

⁷ Since the days of our fathers to this day ^(A)we have been very guilty, and for our iniquities ^(B)we, our kings, and our priests have been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the ^(C)sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to ^(D)humiliation,^[a] as it is this day.