Sirach 48:15-17

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¹⁵ Despite all this the people did not repent,
    nor did they forsake their sins,
until they were carried off as plunder from their land
    and were scattered over all the earth.
The people were left very few in number
    but with a ruler from the house of David.^(A)
16 Some of them did what was right,
    but others sinned more and more.