CLV(i)
3 I am setting my face to my Lord the Elohim, to seek prayer and supplications in fasting and sackcloth and ashes."
4 I am praying to Yahweh my Elohim and am confessing and saying, "Oh, my Lord the El, great and fearful, Keeper of the covenant and the kindness for those loving Him and keeping His instructions:"
5 We sin and we are depraved, we do wickedly and revolt, we withdraw from Thy instructions and from Thy judgments."
6 We do not hearken to Thy servants the prophets, who speak in Thy name to our kings, our chiefs, our forefathers and to all the people of the land."
7 To Thee, my Lord, is righteousness, yet to us is shamefacedness as at this day:To each man of Judah, to the dwellers of Jerusalem, to all the people of Israel, the near and the far, in all the lands where Thou hast expelled them for their offense with which they offend Thee."
8 To Thee, Yahweh, is righteousness, yet to us is shamefacedness:To our kings, to our chiefs, to our forefathers, who sin against Thee."
9 Of Yahweh our Elohim are compassions and pardons; for we revolt against Him."
10 We do not hearken to the voice of Yahweh our Elohim, to go in His laws which He sets before us by the hand of His servants the prophets."