9 Then he said: “If, now, I have found favor in your eyes, O Jehovah, then please, Jehovah, go along with us in our midst,+ although we are an obstinate* people,+ and forgive our error and our sin,+ and take us as your own possession.”

 3 O Jehovah, do your eyes not look for faithfulness?+

You struck them, but it made no impact on them.*

You exterminated them, but they refused to accept discipline.+