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For you have put the fear of you in our hearts so that we would call upon your name; and we will praise you in our exile, for we have put away from our hearts all the iniquity of our ancestors who sinned against you.
5
Do not remember the iniquities of our ancestors, but in this crisis remember your power and your name.
6
For you are the Lord our God, and it is you, O Lord, whom we will praise.
7
For you have put the fear of you in our hearts so that we would call upon your name; and we will praise you in our exile, for we have put away from our hearts all the iniquity of our ancestors who sinned against you.
8
See, we are today in our exile where you have scattered us, to be reproached and cursed and punished for all the iniquities of our ancestors, who forsook the Lord our God.
9
Hear the commandments of life, O Israel; give ear, and learn wisdom!
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