Now therefore, our God, the great, the mighty, and awesome Mighty God, who keeps covenant and mercy: Do not let all the trouble seem small before You that has found us, our kings and our rulers, our priests and our prophets, our fathers and all Your people, since the days of the kings of Assyria until this day.

In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed, you will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore, till I have caused My fury to rest upon you.

I, Jehovah, have spoken it; it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not hold back, nor will I spare, nor will I have compassion; according to your ways and according to your deeds they will judge you, declares the Lord Jehovah.

Have you suffered so many things in vain; if indeed it was in vain?

He has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities.

Through Jehovah's kindness we are not consumed, because His compassions never fail.

Why does a living man complain at the punishment for his sins?

Let us search out and examine our ways, and return to Jehovah.

Jehovah, I have heard the report of You, and am afraid. Jehovah, preserve Your work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make it known; in wrath remember compassion.

and remembered His covenant toward them, and was moved to compassion according to the abundance of His mercies.

He also gave them compassion before the faces of those who had taken them captive.