4
He made them subject to all the kingdoms around us, to be an object of scorn and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.
2
Under the whole heaven there has not been done the like of what he has done in Jerusalem, in accordance with the threats that were written in the law of Moses.
3
Some of us ate the flesh of their sons and others the flesh of their daughters.
4
He made them subject to all the kingdoms around us, to be an object of scorn and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples, where the Lord has scattered them.
5
They were brought down and not raised up, because our nation sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.
6
The Lord our God is in the right, but there is open shame on us and our ancestors this very day.
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