¹⁶ “But they and our fathers ^(A)acted presumptuously and stiffened their neck and did not obey your commandments.

⁴⁷ yet ^(A)if they turn their heart in the land to which they have been carried captive, and repent and plead with you in the land of their captors, saying, ^(B)‘We have sinned and have acted perversely and wickedly,’

^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.

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.

⁶ saying:

“O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities ^(A)have risen higher than our heads, and our ^(B)guilt has ^(C)mounted up to the heavens. ^7 (D)From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great ^(E)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, ^(F)and to utter shame, as it is today.

⁴⁰ “But if ^(A)they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers in their treachery that they ^(B)committed against me, and also in walking contrary to me,

^51 (A)“You stiff-necked people, ^(B)uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit. ^(C)As your fathers did, so do you. ^52 (D)Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of ^(E)the Righteous One, ^(F)whom you have now betrayed and murdered,