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I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;
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For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances have reached up unto heaven.
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For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in great sin, even unto this day.
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And for our sins and our fathers' we with our brethren and our kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the earth, to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, unto this day.
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And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from thee, O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place of thy sanctuary;