(A)Since the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt, and because of our wrongful deeds we, our kings, and our priests have been handed over to the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plunder, and to [a](B)open shame, as it is this day.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 9:7 Lit shame of faces

From the days of our ancestors(A) until now, our guilt has been great. Because of our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been subjected to the sword(B) and captivity,(C) to pillage and humiliation(D) at the hand of foreign kings, as it is today.

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And you shall say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: “(A)If you do not listen to Me, to (B)walk in My Law which I have set before you,

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Say to them, ‘This is what the Lord says: If you do not listen(A) to me and follow my law,(B) which I have set before you,

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10 Yet they (A)have not become [a]contrite even to this day, nor have they feared, nor (B)walked in My Law or My statutes, which I placed before you and before your fathers.”’

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 44:10 Lit crushed

10 To this day they have not humbled(A) themselves or shown reverence,(B) nor have they followed my law(C) and the decrees(D) I set before you and your ancestors.(E)

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