⁵ For her sins are piled as high as heaven,
    and God remembers her evil deeds.

⁴ My guilt overwhelms me—
    it is a burden too heavy to bear.

⁶ I take back everything I said,
    and I sit in dust and ashes to show my repentance.”

²⁴ From childhood we have watched
    as everything our ancestors worked for—
their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters—
    was squandered on a delusion.
²⁵ Let us now lie down in shame
    and cover ourselves with dishonor,
for we and our ancestors have sinned
    against the Lord our God.
From our childhood to this day
    we have never obeyed him.”