hath commanded us.

Bar 2:10
Yet we have not hearkened unto his voice, to walk in the
commandments of the Lord, that he hath set before us.

Bar 2:11
And now, O Lord God of Israel, that hast brought thy people
out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and high arm, and
with signs, and with wonders, and with great power, and hast
gotten thyself a name, as appeareth this day:

Bar 2:12
O Lord our God, we have sinned, we have done ungodly, we have
dealt unrighteously in all thine ordinances.

Bar 2:13
Let thy wrath turn from us: for we are but a few left among
the heathen, where thou hast scattered us.

Bar 2:14
Hear our prayers, O Lord, and our petitions, and deliver us
for thine own sake, and give us favour in the sight of them
which have led us away:

Bar 2:15
That all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God,
because Israel and his posterity is called by thy name.

Bar 2:16
O Lord, look down from thine holy house, and consider us: bow
down thine ear, O Lord, to hear us.

Bar 2:17
Open thine eyes, and behold; for the dead that are in the
graves, whose souls are taken from their bodies, will give unto
the Lord neither praise nor righteousness:

Bar 2:18
But the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and
feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give
thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.

Bar 2:19
Therefore we do not make our humble supplication before thee,
O Lord our God, for the righteousness of our fathers, and of our
kings.

Bar 2:20
For thou hast sent out thy wrath and indignation upon us, as
thou hast spoken by thy servants the prophets, saying,

Bar 2:21
Thus saith the Lord, Bow down your shoulders to serve the
king of Babylon: so shall ye remain in the land that I gave unto
your fathers.

Bar 2:22
But if ye will not hear the voice of the Lord, to serve the
king of Babylon,

Bar 2:23
I will cause to cease out of the cites of Judah, and from
without Jerusalem, the voice of mirth, and the voice of joy, the
voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride: and the
whole land shall be desolate of inhabitants.

Bar 2:24
But we would not hearken unto thy voice, to serve the king of
Babylon: therefore hast thou made good the words that thou
spakest by thy servants the prophets, namely, that the bones of
our kings, and the bones of our fathers, should be taken out of
their place.

Bar 2:25
And, lo, they are cast out to the heat of the day, and