³⁰ For many years you were patient with them. By your Spirit you warned them through your prophets.^(A) Yet they paid no attention, so you gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.^(B)

³⁶ “But see, we are slaves^(A) today, slaves in the land you gave our ancestors so they could eat its fruit and the other good things it produces.

⁷ “Lord, you are righteous,^(A) but this day we are covered with shame^(B)—the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far, in all the countries where you have scattered^(C) us because of our unfaithfulness^(D) to you.^(E)