<p class="poetry">The exiles from Judah will say,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8216;The <sc>Lordsc> has brought about a great deliverance for us!<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Come on, let&#8217;s go and proclaim in Zionp> <p class="poetry">what the <sc>Lordsc> our God has done!&#8217;p>

<p class="poetry">We are all like one who is unclean,p> <p class="poetry">all our so-called righteous acts are like a menstrual rag in your sight.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">We all wither like a leaf;p> <p class="poetry">our sins carry us away like the wind.p>

Listen attentively,<n id="1" /> my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins<n id="2" /> and the city called by your name.<n id="3" /> For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you,<n id="4" /> but because your compassion is abundant.