1Therefore the Lord has made good His word which He pronounced against us, and against our judges who judged Israel, and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Israel and Judah, 2to bring upon us great plagues such as never happened before under the whole heaven, as it came to pass in Jerusalem, according to the things that are written in the law of Moses, 3that we should each eat the flesh of our own son, and each eat the flesh of our own daughter. 4Moreover He has given them to be in subjection to all the kingdoms that are around us, to be a reproach and a desolation among all the people around us, where the Lord has scattered them. 5Thus they were cast down and not exalted, because we sinned against the Lord our God in not listening to His voice. 6To the Lord our God belongs righteousness, but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. 7All these plagues have come upon us which the Lord has pronounced against us. 8Yet have we not entreated the favor of the Lord by everyone turning from the thoughts of his wicked heart. 9Therefore the Lord has kept watch over the plagues. The Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is righteous in all His works which He has commanded us. 10Yet we have not listened to His voice, to walk in the commandments of the Lord that He has set before us.
11And now, O Lord, You God of Israel who have brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, with signs, with wonders, with great power, and with a high arm, and have gotten Yourself a name, as at this day: 12O Lord our God, we have sinned. We have been ungodly. We have done wrong in all Your ordinances. 13Let Your wrath turn from us, for we are but a few left among the heathen where You have scattered us. 14Hear our prayer, O Lord, and our petition, and deliver us for Your own sake. Give us favor in the sight of those who have led us away captive, 15that all the earth may know that You are the Lord our God, because Israel and his posterity is called by Your name. 16O Lord, look down from Your holy house and consider us. Incline Your ear, O Lord, and hear. 17Open Your eyes, and see; for the dead that are in Hades, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the Lord neither glory nor righteousness; 18but the soul who is greatly vexed, who goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will declare Your glory and righteousness, O Lord.
19For we do not present our supplication before You, O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers and of our kings. 20For You have sent Your wrath and Your indignation upon us, as You have spoken by Your servants the prophets, saying, 21“The Lord says, ‘Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Babylon, and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers. 22But if you won’t hear the voice of the Lord to serve the king of Babylon, 23I will cause to cease out of the cities of Judah and from the region near Jerusalem the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. The whole land will be desolate without inhabitant.’” 24But we wouldn’t listen to Your voice, to serve the king of Babylon. Therefore You have made good Your words that You spoke by Your servants the prophets, that the bones of our kings and the bones of our fathers would be taken out of their places. 25Behold, they are cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. They died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by pestilence. 26You have made the house that is called by Your name as it is today because of the wickedness of the house of Israel and the house of Judah.
27Yet, O Lord our God, You have dealt with us after all Your kindness and according to all Your great mercy, 28as You spoke by Your servant Moses in the day when You commanded him to write Your law in the presence of the children of Israel, saying, 29“If you won’t hear My voice, surely this very great multitude will be turned into a small number among the nations where I will scatter them. 30For I know that they will not hear Me, because they are a stiff-necked people; but in the land of their captivity they will take it to heart, 31and will know that I am the Lord their God. I will give them a heart and ears to hear. 32Then they will praise Me in the land of their captivity, and think about My name, 33and will return from their stiff neck and from their wicked deeds; for they will remember the way of their fathers who sinned before the Lord. 34I will bring them again into the land which I promised to their fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, and they will rule over it. I will increase them, and they won’t be diminished. 35And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they will be My people. I will no more remove My people Israel out of the land that I have given them.”
1Propter quod statuit Dominus Deus noster verbum suum, quod locutus est ad nos, et ad judices nostros qui judicaverunt Israël, et ad reges nostros, et ad principes nostros, et ad omnem Israël et Juda: 2ut adduceret Dominus super nos mala magna, quæ non sunt facta sub cælo quemadmodum facta sunt in Jerusalem, secundum quæ scripta sunt in lege Moysi, 3et manducaret homo carnes filii sui et carnes filiæ suæ. 4Et dedit eos sub manu regum omnium qui sunt in circuitu nostro, in improperium et in desolationem in omnibus populis in quibus nos dispersit Dominus: 5et facti sumus subtus, et non supra, quia peccavimus Domino Deo nostro, non obaudiendo voci ipsius. 6Domino Deo nostro justitia, nobis autem et patribus nostris confusio faciei, sicut est dies hæc: 7quia locutus est Dominus super nos omnia mala hæc quæ venerunt super nos: 8et non sumus deprecati faciem Domini Dei nostri, ut reverteremur unusquisque nostrum a viis nostris pessimis. 9Et vigilavit Dominus in malis, et adduxit ea super nos: quia justus est Dominus in omnibus operibus suis quæ mandavit nobis, 10et non audivimus vocem ipsius ut iremus in præceptis Domini, quæ dedit ante faciem nostram. 11Et nunc, Domine Deus Israël, qui eduxisti populum tuum de terra Ægypti in manu valida, et in signis, et in prodigiis, et in virtute tua magna, et in brachio excelso, et fecisti tibi nomen sicut est dies iste: 12peccavimus, impie egimus, inique gessimus, Domine Deus noster, in omnibus justitiis tuis. 13Avertatur ira tua a nobis, quia derelicti sumus pauci inter gentes ubi dispersisti nos. 14Exaudi, Domine, preces nostras et orationes nostras, et educ nos propter te, et da nobis invenire gratiam ante faciem eorum qui nos abduxerunt: 15ut sciat omnis terra quia tu es Dominus Deus noster, et quia nomen tuum invocatum est super Israël, et super genus ipsius. 16Respice, Domine, de domo sancta tua in nos, et inclina aurem tuam, et exaudi nos. 17Aperi oculos tuos et vide: quia non mortui qui sunt in inferno, quorum spiritus acceptus est a visceribus suis, dabunt honorem et justificationem Domino: 18sed anima quæ tristis est super magnitudine mali, et incedit curva et infirma, et oculi deficientes, et anima esuriens, dat tibi gloriam et justitiam Domino. 19Quia non secundum justitias patrum nostrorum nos fundimus preces et petimus misericordiam ante conspectum tuum, Domine Deus noster: 20sed quia misisti iram tuam et furorem tuum super nos, sicut locutus es in manu puerorum tuorum prophetarum, dicens: 21Sic dicit Dominus: Inclinate humerum vestrum et cervicem vestram, et opera facite regi Babylonis, et sedebitis in terra quam dedi patribus vestris. 22Quod si non audieritis vocem Domini Dei vestri, operari regi Babyloniæ, defectionem vestram faciam de civitatibus Juda, et a foris Jerusalem, 23et auferam a vobis vocem jucunditatis et vocem gaudii, et vocem sponsi et vocem sponsæ, et erit omnis terra sine vestigio ab inhabitantibus eam. 24Et non audierunt vocem tuam, ut operarentur regi Babylonis: et statuisti verba tua, quæ locutus es in manibus puerorum tuorum prophetarum, ut transferrentur ossa regum nostrorum et ossa patrum nostrorum de loco suo: 25et ecce projecta sunt in calore solis et in gelu noctis, et mortui sunt in doloribus pessimis, in fame et in gladio, et in emissione. 26Et posuisti templum in quo invocatum est nomen tuum in ipso sicut hæc dies, propter iniquitatem domus Israël et domus Juda. 27Et fecisti in nobis, Domine Deus noster, secundum omnem bonitatem tuam et secundum omnem miserationem tuam illam magnam: 28sicut locutus es in manu pueri tui Moysi, in die qua præcepisti ei scribere legem tuam coram filiis Israël, 29dicens: Si non audieritis vocem meam, multitudo hæc magna convertetur in minimam inter gentes, quo ego eos dispergam: 30quia scio quod me non audiet populus: populus est enim dura cervice. Et convertetur ad cor suum in terra captivitatis suæ, 31et scient quia ego sum Dominus Deus eorum: et dabo eis cor, et intelligent; aures, et audient: 32et laudabunt me in terra captivitatis suæ, et memores erunt nominis mei, 33et avertent se a dorso suo duro, et a malignitatibus suis: quia reminiscentur viam patrum suorum, qui peccaverunt in me. 34Et revocabo illos in terram quam juravi patribus eorum, Abraham, Isaac, et Jacob: et dominabuntur ejus, et multiplicabo eos, et non minorabuntur: 35et statuam illis testamentum alterum sempiternum, ut sim illis in Deum, et ipsi erunt mihi in populum: et non movebo amplius populum meum, filios Israël, a terra quam dedi illis.