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Listen to the fugitives and refugees from the land of Babylon, declaring in Zion the vengeance of the LORD our God, the vengeance for His temple.

“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

“The LORD has brought forth our vindication; come, let us tell in Zion what the LORD our God has accomplished.”

“We are ashamed because we have heard reproach; disgrace has covered our faces, because foreigners have entered the holy places of the LORD’s house.”

Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

All our enemies open their mouths against us.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!

The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows.

We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.

Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

Now as for you, son of man, tell the house of Israel that this is what they have said: ‘Our transgressions and our sins are heavy upon us, and we are wasting away because of them! How can we live?’

In the twelfth year of our exile, on the fifth day of the tenth month, a fugitive from Jerusalem came to me and reported, “The city has been taken!”

This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’

In the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.

Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”

We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, leaders, fathers, and all the people of the land.

To You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but this day we are covered with shame—the men of Judah, the people of Jerusalem, and all Israel near and far, in all the countries to which You have driven us because of our unfaithfulness to You.

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.

To the Lord our God belong compassion and forgiveness, even though we have rebelled against Him

…and have not obeyed the voice of the LORD our God to walk in His laws, which He set before us through His servants the prophets.

You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under all of heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

Just as it is written in the Law of Moses, all this disaster has come upon us, yet we have not sought the favor of the LORD our God by turning from our iniquities and giving attention to Your truth.

Therefore the LORD has kept the calamity in store and brought it upon us. For the LORD our God is righteous in all He does; yet we have not obeyed His voice.

Now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and who made for Yourself a name renowned to this day, we have sinned; we have acted wickedly.

O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

O Lord, in keeping with all Your righteous acts, I pray that Your anger and wrath may turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all around us.

So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary.

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation of the city that bears Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You because of our righteous acts, but because of Your great compassion.

Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.

The princes are inflamed with wine on the day of our king; so he joins hands with those who mock him.

Israel cries out to Me, “O our God, we know You!”

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

Bring your confessions and return to the LORD. Say to Him: “Take away all our iniquity and receive us graciously, that we may present the fruit of our lips.

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Assyria will not save us, nor will we ride on horses. We will never again say, ‘Our gods!’ to the work of our own hands. For in You the fatherless find compassion.”

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes—joy and gladness from the house of our God?

…you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

In that day they will take up a proverb against you and taunt you with this bitter lamentation: ‘We are utterly ruined! He has changed the portion of my people. How He has removed it from me! He has allotted our fields to traitors.’”

Though all the nations may walk in the name of their gods, yet we will walk in the name of the LORD our God forever and ever.

But now many nations have assembled against you, saying, “Let her be defiled, and let us feast our eyes on Zion.”

And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.

And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.

And He will be our peace when Assyria invades our land and tramples our citadels. We will raise against it seven shepherds, even eight leaders of men.

And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.

And they will rule the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the blade drawn. So He will deliver us when Assyria invades our land and marches into our borders.

They will lick the dust like a snake, like reptiles slithering on the ground. They will come trembling from their strongholds in the presence of the LORD our God; they will tremble in fear of You.

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

He will again have compassion on us; He will vanquish our iniquities. You will cast out all our sins into the depths of the sea.

You will show faithfulness to Jacob and loving devotion to Abraham, as You swore to our fathers from the days of old.

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”

I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.

This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

Do we not all have one Father? Did not one God create us? Why then do we break faith with one another so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?

And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.

So then, this is how you should pray: ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name.

Give us this day our daily bread.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”

This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: “He took up our infirmities and carried our diseases.”

“Lord,” they answered, “let our eyes be opened.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures: ‘The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone. This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

The foolish ones said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’

All the people answered, “His blood be on us and on our children!”

“Blessed is the coming kingdom of our father David!” “Hosanna in the highest!”

This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

Jesus replied, “This is the most important: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One.

…as He promised to our fathers, to Abraham and his descendants forever.”

…salvation from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us,

…to show mercy to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,