⁶ For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done what is evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken Him and ^(A)turned their faces away from the dwelling place of Yahweh, and have ^[a]turned their backs. ⁷ They have also ^(B)shut the doors of the porch and put out the lamps, and have not burned incense or offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. ⁸ Therefore ^(C)the wrath of Yahweh was against Judah and Jerusalem, and He has made them an object of terror, of horror, and of ^(D)hissing, as you see with your own eyes. ⁹ And behold, ^(E)our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this. ¹⁰ Now it is in my heart ^(F)to cut a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that His burning anger may turn away from us.

²¹ “Go, inquire of Yahweh for me and those who are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which has been found, for ^(A)great is the wrath of Yahweh which is poured out against us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Yahweh, to do according to all that is written in this book.”