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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.
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Some of us ate the flesh of their sons and others the flesh of their daughters.
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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.
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They were brought down and not raised up, because our nation sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.
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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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All those calamities with which the Lord threatened us have come upon us.
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Yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord by turning away, each of us, from the thoughts of our wicked hearts.
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And the Lord has kept the calamities ready, and the Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is just in all the works that he has commanded us to do.
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Yet we have not obeyed his voice, to walk in the statutes of the Lord that he set before us.
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And now, O Lord God of Israel, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and with signs and wonders and with great power and outstretched arm, and made yourself a name that continues to this day,
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we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have done wrong, O Lord our God, against all your ordinances.