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“Therefore Yahuah has established His Word that He spoke against us, and against our judges who judged Yisra’el, and against our kings, and against our rulers, and against the ish of Yisra’el and Yehudah,
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to bring upon us great evils such as had never been done beneath the whole heavens, according to what was done in Yerushalayim, according to the things written in the Torah of Mosheh,
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that an ish should eat the flesh of his own son, and an ish the flesh of his own daughter.
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And He gave them into subjection to all the kingdoms around us, to become a reproach and a desolation among all the surrounding peoples where Yahuah scattered them.
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And they were brought low and not raised up, because we sinned against Yahuah our Elohim by not hearing His voice.
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To Yahuah our Elohim belongs Righteousness, but to us and to our fathers shame of face, as it is this day.
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All these evils that Yahuah spoke against us have come upon us.
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Yet we did not entreat the face of Yahuah by turning, each ish, from the purposes of his crooked heart.
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Therefore Yahuah watched over the evil and brought it upon us, for Yahuah is righteous in all His works that He commanded us.
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Yet we did not hear His voice to walk according to the commandments of Yahuah that He placed before our face.
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And now, Yahuah Elohim of Yisra’el, who brought Your people out from the land of Mitzrayim with a mighty hand, with signs and wonders, with great power and with an uplifted arm, and made Yourself a Name, as it is this day—
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we have sinned, we have acted wickedly, we have dealt crookedly, Yahuah our Elohim, against all Your statutes.
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Let Your anger turn away from us, for we are few among the nations where You scattered us.
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Hear, Yahuah, our prayer and our supplication, and deliver us for Your own sake. And give us favor before the face of those who carried us away,
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so that all the earth may know that You are Yahuah our Elohim, because Yisra’el and his seed are called by Your Name.
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Yahuah, look down from Your holy dwelling and consider us. Incline Your ear, Yahuah, and hear.
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Open Your eyes and see. For the dead who are in Sheol, whose ruach has been taken from their body, will not give glory and Righteousness to Yahuah.
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But the being that is greatly afflicted, that walks bowed down and weak, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry being— they will give You glory and Righteousness, Yahuah.
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For we do not pour out our supplication before Your face, Yahuah our Elohim, because of the righteousness of our fathers and our kings.
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For You sent Your anger and Your wrath upon us, just as You spoke by the hand of Your servants the prophets, saying:
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‘Thus says Yahuah: Bow your shoulders and serve the king of Bavel, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers.
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But if you do not hear the voice of Yahuah to serve the king of Bavel,
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I will cause to cease from the cities of Yehudah and from outside Yerushalayim the voice of rejoicing and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, and the whole land shall become desolate without inhabitants.’
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But we did not hear Your voice to serve the king of Bavel. Therefore You established Your Words that You spoke by the hand of Your servants the prophets: that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be brought out from their places.
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And see, they have been cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night. And they died in severe sufferings— by famine, by sword, and by pestilence.
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And the House called by Your Name You have made as it is this day, because of the wickedness of the House of Yisra’el and the House of Yehudah.
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Yet You have dealt with us, Yahuah our Elohim, according to all Your goodness and according to all Your great mercy,
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just as You spoke by the hand of Mosheh Your servant on the day You commanded him to write Your Torah before the sons of Yisra’el, saying:
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‘If you do not hear My voice, this great multitude shall surely be turned into a small number among the nations where I scatter them.
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For I know that they will not hear Me, because they are a stiff-necked people. But in the land of their captivity they shall return to their heart.
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And they shall know that I am Yahuah their Elohim. And I will give them a heart and ears that hear.
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And they shall praise Me in the land of their captivity, and remember My Name.
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And they shall turn from their stiff neck and from their wicked works, because they shall remember the way of their fathers who sinned before Yahuah.
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And I will return them to the land that I swore to their fathers— to Avraham, to Yitzchaq, and to Yaaqov— and they shall rule over it. And I will multiply them, and they shall not be diminished.
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And I will establish with them an Everlasting Covenant to be their Elohim, and they shall be My people. And I will no longer remove My people Yisra’el from the land that I gave them.’”