^26 (A)“Nevertheless, they were disobedient and rebelled against you ^(B)and cast your law behind their back ^(C)and killed your prophets, who ^(D)had warned them in order to turn them back to you, ^(E)and they committed great blasphemies.

¹⁸ I will arise and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, ^(A)I have sinned against ^(B)heaven and before you. ^19 (C)I am no longer worthy to be called your son. Treat me as one of your hired servants.”’

⁵ Your fathers, where are they? And ^(A)the prophets, do they live forever?

^5 (A)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ^(B)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. ^6 (C)We have not listened to ^(D)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^(E)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷ To you, ^(F)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, ^(G)those who are near and ^(H)those who are far away, in ^(I)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^(J)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 ^(K)we have sinned against you. ^9 (L)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him ^10 (M)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ^(N)his servants the prophets. ^11 (O)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ^(P)refusing to obey your voice. ^(Q)And the curse and oath ^(R)that are written in the Law of ^(S)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ^(T)we have sinned against him. ¹² He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ^(U)our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ^(V)bringing upon us a great calamity. ^(W)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. ^13 (X)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, ^(Y)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. ^14 (Z)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, ^(AA)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and ^(AB)we have not obeyed his voice.

¹³ On account of your unclean lewdness, because I would have cleansed you and you were not cleansed from your uncleanness, ^(A)you shall not be cleansed anymore till ^(B)I have satisfied my fury upon you.