³² because of all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—^(A)their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

³² “Now, therefore, our God, ^(A)the great, the mighty, and the awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love, let not all the hardship seem little to you that has come upon us, upon our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our fathers, and all your people, ^(B)since the time of the kings of Assyria until this day. ^33 (C)Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully ^(D)and we have acted wickedly. ³⁴ Our kings, our princes, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or paid attention to your commandments and your warnings that you gave them.

^7 (A)From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great ^(B)guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, ^(C)and to utter shame, as it is today.

^21 (A)But what fruit were you getting at that time from the things ^(B)of which you are now ashamed? ^(C)For the end of those things is death.

^6 (A)We have not listened to ^(B)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^(C)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ To you, ^(D)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^(E)those who are near and ^(F)those who are far away, in ^(G)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^(H)the treachery that they have committed against you. ⁸ To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^(I)we have sinned against you.

^27 (A)Was not Israel a derision to you? ^(B)Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him ^(C)you wagged your head?

²⁴ “But from our youth the shameful thing has devoured all for which our fathers labored, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters. ^25 (A)Let us lie down in our shame, and let our dishonor cover us. For ^(B)we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even to this day, and we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.”