254 are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee. O ford, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee. But to the Lord our God belong mercies and forgiveness, though we have rebelled against him; peither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets. Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by departing, that they might not obey thy voice; therefore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that is written in the law of Moses the servant of God, because we have sinned against him. And he hath confirmed his which he spake against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil : for under the whole heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon Jerusalem. As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil upon us; yet made we not our prayer before the Lord our God, that
