⁹ persecuted, but not ^(A)forsaken; ^(B)struck down, but not destroyed—

¹⁹ Now we know that whatever ^(A)the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that ^(B)every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become ^[a]guilty before God.

⁸ “O Lord, to us belongs shame of face, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. ^9 (A)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against Him. ¹⁰ We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in His laws, which He set before us by His servants the prophets. ¹¹ Yes, ^(B)all Israel has transgressed Your law, and has departed so as not to obey Your voice; therefore the curse and the oath written in the ^(C)Law of Moses the servant of God have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against Him. ¹² And He has ^(D)confirmed His words, which He spoke against us and against our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us a great disaster; ^(E)for under the whole heaven such has never been done as what has been done to Jerusalem.

^13 (F)“As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us; ^(G)yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth. ¹⁴ Therefore the Lord has ^(H)kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for ^(I)the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.