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They were brought low and not raised up, because we sinned against the Lord our God, in not heeding his voice.
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"`Righteousness belongs to the Lord our God, but confusion of face to us and our fathers, as at this 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 his wicked heart.
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And the Lord has kept the calamities ready, and the Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is righteous in all his works which 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 which he set before us.
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"`And now, O Lord God of Israel, who didst bring thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and with signs and wonders and with great power and outstretched arm, and hast made thee a name, as at this day,
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we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have done wrong, O Lord our God, against all thy ordinances.
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Let thy anger turn away from us, for we are left, few in number, among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
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Hear, O Lord, our prayer and our supplication, and for thy own sake deliver us, and grant us favor in the sight of those who have carried us into exile;
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that all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, for Israel and his descendants are called by thy name.