<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint<n id="1" /> toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify<n id="1" /> the <sc>LORDsc> our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom<n id="2" /> from your reliable moral standards.<n id="3" />