4. God handed them over to be subjects of all the kingdoms around us—objects of insult and outcasts wherever the Lord scattered them.
5. They were brought down and not lifted up, because we sinned against the Lord our God by not listening to his voice.
6. Justice is on the side of the Lord our God, but public shame is upon us and upon our ancestors to this very day.
7. All these horrible things that the Lord had spoken came on us.
8. But we didn’t plead with the Lord so as to turn each one of us from the designs of our wicked hearts.