Thomson(i)
33 Thou indeed art righteous in all that have come upon us. For thou hast acted with truth; but we have sinned greatly.
34 Our kings, and our chiefs, and our priests, and our fathers, have not kept thy law, nor hearkened to thy commandments and thy testimonies which thou hast testified against them.
35 Even in thine own kingdom, and during that abundant bounty of thine which thou didst bestow on them, and in this extensive and rich country which thou gavest before them, they have not served thee, nor turned away from their wicked devices.
36 Behold we are now slaves, and as for this land which thou gavest to our fathers to eat the fruits thereof, and the good things thereof, behold we are slaves in it;
37 and its abundant fruits belong to those kings whom for our sins thou hast set over us, and who have dominion over our bodies, and who can do with our cattle what they please, so that we are in great affliction.
38 In a due sense, therefore, of all these things we pledge our faith, we by writing, and our chiefs, our Levites, and our priests by sealing;