19. For it is not according to the righteousness of our fathers that we pour out our petitions and beg mercy in your sight, O Lord our God,
20. but because you have sent your wrath and your fury upon us, just as you have spoken by the hand of your children the prophets, saying:
21. "Thus says the Lord, 'Bow down your shoulder and your neck, and do work for the king of Babylon, and settle in the land which I gave to your fathers,