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Lamentations 3:42

New American Bible - revised edition

We have rebelled and been obstinate; you have not forgiven us.

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and especially because of the innocent blood he shed; he filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord would not forgive.

I said: “My God, I am too ashamed and humiliated to raise my face to you, my God, for our wicked deeds are heaped up above our heads and our guilt reaches up to heaven.

But they were contemptuous and rebelled against you: they cast your law behind their backs. They murdered your prophets who bore witness against them to bring them back to you: they were guilty of great insults.

Because they rebelled against God’s word, and scorned the counsel of the Most High,

We recognize our wickedness, Lord, the guilt of our ancestors: we have sinned against you.

Only admit your guilt: how you have rebelled against the Lord, your God, How you ran here and there to strangers under every green tree and would not listen to my voice—oracle of the Lord.

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

The crown has fallen from our head: woe to us that we sinned!

Even in defiling yourself with depravity I would still have cleansed you, but you would not have your impurity cleansed. You will not be cleansed now until I wreak my fury on you.

“Now, Lord, our God, who led your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand, and made a name for yourself even to this day, we have sinned, we are guilty.

Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, can they live forever?

But my words and my statutes, with which I charged my servants the prophets, did these not overtake your ancestors? Then they repented and admitted: “Just as the Lord of hosts intended to treat us according to our ways and deeds, so the Lord has done.” First Vision: Horses Patrolling the Earth.




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