1
Wherefore the Lord our God hath made good his word, that he spoke to us, and to our judges that have judged Israel, and to our kings, and to our princes, and to all Israel and Juda:
2
That the Lord would bring upon us great evils, such as never happened under heaven, as they have come to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses:
3
That a man should eat the flesh of his own son, and the flesh of his own daughter.
4
And he hath delivered them up to be under the hand of all the kings that are round about us, to be a reproach, and desolation among all the people, among whom the Lord hath scattered us.
5
And we are brought under, and are not uppermost: because we have sinned against the Lord our God, by not obeying his voice.
6
To the Lord our God belongeth justice: but to us, and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day.
7
For the Lord hath pronounced against us all these evils that are come upon us:
8
And we have not entreated the face of the Lord our God, that we might return every one of us from our most wicked ways.
9
And the Lord hath watched over us for evil, and hath brought it upon us: for the Lord is just in all his works which he hath commanded us: