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Rh :Though our iniquities testify against us,
 * O, work Thou for Thy name's sake;
 * For our backslidings are many,
 * We have sinned against Thee.
 * O Thou hope of Israel,
 * The Saviour thereof in time of trouble,
 * Why shouldest Thou be as a stranger in the land,
 * And as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?
 * Why shouldest thou be as a man overcome,
 * As a mighty man that cannot save?
 * Yet Thou, O, art in the midst of us,
 * And Thy name is called upon us;
 * Leave us not.

Thus saith the unto this people:


 * Even so have they loved to wander,
 * They have not refrained their feet;
 * Therefore the doth not accept them,
 * Now will He remember their iniquity,
 * And punish their sins.

And the said unto me: 'Pray not for this people for their good. When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt-offering and meal-offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.' Then said I: 'Ah, Lord ! behold, the prophets say unto them: Ye shall not see the sword, neither shall ye have famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place.' Then the said unto me: 'The prophets prophesy lies in My name; I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spoke I unto them; they prophesy unto you a lying vision, and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their own heart. Therefore thus saith the : As for the prophets that prophesy in My name, and I sent them not, yet they say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land, by sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed; and the people to whom they prophesy shall be cast out in the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and they shall have none to bury them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters; for I will pour their evil upon them.'

And thou shalt say this word unto them:


 * Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day,
 * And let them not cease;
 * For the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach,
 * With a very grievous blow.
 * If I go forth into the field,
 * Then behold the slain with the sword!
 * And if I enter into the city,
 * Then behold them that are sick with famine!
 * For both the prophet and the priest are gone about to a land, and knew it not.


 * Hast Thou utterly rejected Judah?
 * Hath Thy soul loathed Zion?
 * Why hast Thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us?
 * We looked for peace, but no good came;
 * And for a time of healing, and behold terror!
 * We acknowledge, O, our wickedness,
 * Even the iniquity of our fathers;
 * For we have sinned against Thee.