“Then I said of her who was worn out by adultery, ‘Now they will continue to use her for a whore, even her!’
“O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.
They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.
Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard his spots? Then also you can do good who are accustomed to do evil.
Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
From the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt. And for our iniquities we, our kings, and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, to plundering, and to utter shame, as it is today.
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