They have become fat and sleek. They have also excelled in evil matters. They have not taken up cases, such as the case of the fatherless, so they might prosper, and they have not defended the rights of the needy.
When your people go out to fight against their enemies, wherever you send them, and they pray to you in the direction of this city which you have chosen and the temple that I have built for your name,
When they sin against you – for there is no one who does not sin – and you are angry with them and hand them over to the enemy, and their captors deport them to a distant or nearby country,