2:27 O Lord our God, thou hast dealt with us after all thy goodness, and according to all that great mercy of thine, 2:28 As thou spakest by thy servant Moses in the day when thou didst command him to write the law before the children of Israel, saying, 2:29 If ye will not hear my voice, surely this very great multitude shall be turned into a small number among the nations, where I will scatter them. 2:30 For I knew that they would not hear me, because it is a stiffnecked people: but in the land of their captivities they shall remember themselves. 2:31 And shall know that I am the Lord their God: for I will give them an heart, and ears to hear: 2:32 And they shall praise me in the land of their captivity, and think upon my name, 2:33 And return from their stiff neck, and from their wicked deeds: for they shall remember the way of their fathers, which sinned before the Lord. 2:34 And I will bring them again into the land which I promised with an oath unto their fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and they shall be lords of it: and I will increase them, and they shall not be diminished. 2:35 And I will make an everlasting covenant with them to be their God, and they shall be my people: and I will no more drive my people of Israel out of the land that I have given them. 3:1 O Lord Almighty, God of Israel, the soul in anguish the troubled spirit, crieth unto thee. 3:2 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy; as thou art merciful: and have pity upon us, because we have sinned before thee. 3:3 For thou endurest for ever, and we perish utterly. 3:4 O Lord Almighty, thou God of Israel, hear now the prayers of the dead Israelites, and of their children, which have sinned before thee, and not hearkened unto the voice of thee their God: for the which cause these plagues cleave unto us. 3:5 Remember not the iniquities of our forefathers: but think upon thy power and thy name now at this time. 3:6 For thou art the Lord our God, and thee, O Lord, will we praise. 3:7 And for this cause thou hast put thy fear in our hearts, to the intent that we should call upon thy name, and praise thee in our captivity: for we have called to mind all the iniquity of our forefathers, that sinned before thee. 3:8 Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity, where thou hast scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to payments, according to all the iniquities of our fathers, which departed from the Lord our God. 3:9 Hear, Israel, the commandments of life: give ear to understand wisdom. 3:10 How happeneth it Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead, 3:11 That thou art counted with them that go down into the grave? 3:12 Thou hast forsaken the fountain of wisdom. 3:13 For if thou hadst walked in the way of God, thou shouldest have dwelled in peace for ever.