8 Behold, we are yet this day in our captivity where you have scattered us, for a reproach and a curse, and to be subject to penalty according to all the iniquities of our fathers who departed from the Lord our God. (WEB) 9 Hear, O Israel, the commandments of life! Give ear to understand wisdom! (WEB) 10 How is it, O Israel, that you are in your enemies’ land, that you have become old in a strange country, that you are defiled with the dead, (WEB)
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