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.

^5 (A)For her sins ^[a]have reached to heaven, and ^(B)God has remembered her iniquities.

Israel Returns the Captives

⁹ But a ^(A)prophet of the Lord was there, whose name was Oded; and he went out before the army that came to Samaria, and said to them: “Look, ^(B)because the Lord God of your fathers was angry with Judah, He has delivered them into your hand; but you have killed them in a rage that ^(C)reaches up to heaven.

²¹ And the son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven ^(A)and in your sight, and am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

^21 (A)What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For ^(B)the end of those things is death.

⁷ O Lord, ^(A)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.

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.’ ”