The Lord is just, for I have rebelled against his command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young women and young men have gone into captivity.
because of all the evil the Israelites and Judeans have done to anger me #– #they, their kings, their officials, their priests, and their prophets, the men of Judah, and the residents of Jerusalem.
so that when I make atonement for all you have done, you will remember and be ashamed, and never open your mouth again because of your disgrace. This is the declaration of the Lord God.” ’
and when they come to their senses in the land where they were deported and repent and petition you in their captors’ land, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have been wicked,’
let your eyes be open and your ears be attentive to hear your servant’s prayer that I now pray to you day and night for your servants, the Israelites. I confess the sins we have committed against you. Both I and my father’s family have sinned.
She has rebelled against my ordinances with more wickedness than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that surround her. For her people have rejected my ordinances and have not walked in my statutes.