⁶ For our fathers have been unfaithful and have done evil in the sight of the Lord our God, and they have abandoned Him and ^(A)turned their faces away from the dwelling place of the Lord, and have ^[a]turned their backs. ⁷ They have also ^(B)shut the doors of the porch and extinguished the lamps, and have not burned incense nor offered burnt offerings in the holy place to the God of Israel. ⁸ Therefore ^(C)the wrath of the Lord 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 For behold, ^(E)our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this. ¹⁰ Now it is in my heart ^(F)to make a covenant with the Lord God of Israel, so that His burning anger may turn away from us.

²¹ “Go, inquire of the Lord for me and for those who are left in Israel and Judah, concerning the words of the book which has been found; for ^(A)the wrath of the Lord which has poured out on us is great, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to act in accordance with everything that is written in this book.”