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.’

¹⁵ O Lord God of Israel, ^(A)You are righteous, for we are left as a remnant, as it is this day. ^(B)Here we are before You, ^(C)in our guilt, though no one can stand before You because of this!”

^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.