28. Hear these words, O Israel.
29. Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt, and they were delivered from thence,
30. and received the law of life, which they kept not, which you⌃ also have transgressed after them.
31. Then was the land, even the land of Sion, given you for a possession: but you⌃ yourselves, and your fathers, have done unrighteousness, and have not kept the ways which the Most High commanded you.
32. And forasmuch as he is a righteous judge, he took from you for a while the thing that he had given you.