very heavy.

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So all they that were then moved at the word of the Lord God
of Israel assembled unto me, whilst I mourned for the iniquity:
but I sat still full of heaviness until the evening sacrifice.

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Then rising up from the fast with my clothes and the holy garment
rent, and bowing my knees, and stretching forth my hands unto
the Lord,

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I said, O Lord, I am confounded and ashamed before thy face;

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For our sins are multiplied above our heads, and our ignorances
have reached up unto heaven.

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For ever since the time of our fathers we have been and are in
great sin, even unto this day.

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And for our sins and our fathers' we with our brethren and our
kings and our priests were given up unto the kings of the earth,
to the sword, and to captivity, and for a prey with shame, unto
this day.

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And now in some measure hath mercy been shewed unto us from thee,
O Lord, that there should be left us a root and a name in the place
of thy sanctuary;

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And to discover unto us a light in the house of the Lord our God,
and to give us food in the time of our servitude.

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Yea, when we were in bondage, we were not forsaken of our Lord; but
he made us gracious before the kings of Persia, so that they gave
us food;

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Yea, and honoured the temple of our Lord, and raised up the
desolate Sion, that they have given us a sure abiding in Jewry
and Jerusalem.

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And now, O Lord, what shall we say, having these things? for
we have transgressed thy commandments, which thou gavest by the
hand of thy servants the prophets, saying,

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That the land, which ye enter into to possess as an heritage,
is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the
land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness.

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Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons,
neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.

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Moreover ye shall never seek to have peace with them, that ye
may be strong, and eat the good things of the land, and that ye
may leave the inheritance of the land unto your children for
evermore.

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And all that is befallen is done unto us for our wicked works
and great sins; for thou, O Lord, didst make our sins light,

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And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back
again to transgress thy law, and to