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2 Therefore the master has made good his word which he pronounced against us, and against our judges who judged Yisrael (Israel), and against our kings, and against our princes, and against the men of Yisrael and Yehudah (Judah), 2 to bring terrible deadly diseases onto us such as never happened before under the whole heaven,[fn] as it happened in Yerushalem (Jerusalem), according to the things that are written in Mosheh’s law, 3 that we should each eat the flesh of our own son, and each eat the flesh of our own daughter. 4 Moreover he’s 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 master has scattered them. 5 Thus they were thrown down and not exalted, because we sinned against the master our god in not listening to his voice. 6 To the master our god belongs righteousness, but to us and to our fathers confusion of face, as at this day. 7 All these deadly diseases have come onto us which the master has pronounced against us. 8 Yet we haven’t asked for the favour of the master by everyone turning from the thoughts of his wicked heart. 9 Therefore the master has kept watch over the deadly diseases. The master has brought them onto us, because the master is righteous in all his works which he’s commanded us. 10 Yet we haven’t listened to his voice, to walk in the master’s commandments that he’s set before us.
2:11 A prayer for mercy
11 And now, Oh master, you God of Yisrael (Israel) who’ve brought your people out of the land of Mitsrayim (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: 12 Oh master our god, we’ve sinned. We’ve been ungodly. We’ve done wrong in all your ordinances. 13 Let your anger turn from us, for we’re but a few left among the heathen where you’ve scattered us. 14 Hear our prayer, Oh master, and our petition, and deliver us for your own sake. Give us favour in the sight of those who’ve led us away captive, 15 that all the earth may know that you’re the master our god, because Yisrael and his posterity is called by your name. 16 Oh master, look down from your holy house and consider us. Incline your ear, Oh master, and hear. 17 Open your eyes, and see; for the dead that are in Haidais, whose breath is taken from their bodies, will give to the master neither glory nor righteousness; 18 but the soul who’s greatly vexed, who goes stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will declare your glory and righteousness, Oh master.
19 Because we don’t present our supplication before you, Oh master our god, for the righteousness of our fathers and of our kings. 20 Because you’ve sent your anger and your indignation onto us, as you’ve spoken by your servants the prophets, saying, 21 “The master says, ‘Bow your shoulders to serve the king of Bavel (Babylon), and remain in the land that I gave to your fathers. 22 But if you won’t hear the master’s voice to serve the king of Bavel, 23 I’ll cause to cease out of the cities of Yehudah (Judah) and from the region near Yerushalem (Jerusalem) the voice of mirth, the voice of gladness, voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride. The whole land will be desolate without inhabitant.’ ” 24 But we wouldn’t listen to your voice, to serve the king of Bavel. Therefore you’ve 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. 25 Listen, they’re thrown out to the heat by day and to the frost by night. They died in great miseries by famine, by sword, and by[fn] pestilence. 26 You’ve made the house that’s called by your name as it’s today because of the wickedness of the house of Yisrael (Israel) and the house of Yehudah.
27 Yet, Oh master our god, you have dealt with us after all your kindness and according to all your great mercy, 28 as you spoke by your servant Mosheh (Moses) in the day when you commanded him to write your law in the presence of the Israeli people, 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’ll scatter them. 30 Because I know that they won’t listen to me, because they’re a stiff-necked people; but in the land of their captivity they’ll take it to heart, 31 and will know that I’m the master their god. I’ll give them a heart and ears to hear. 32 Then they’ll praise me in the land of their captivity, and think about my name, 33 and will return from their stiff neck and from their wicked actions; because they’ll remember the way of their fathers who sinned before the master. 34 I’ll bring them again into the land which I promised to their fathers, to Avraham, to Yitshak (Isaac), and to Ya’akov (Jacob), and they’ll rule over it. I’ll increase them, and they won’t be diminished. 35 And I’ll make an eternal covenant with them to be their god, and they’ll be my people. I’ll no more remove my people Yisrael out of the land that I’ve given them.”
