33 You have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have acted faithfully; but we are the ones who have acted wickedly.+

8 “‘And many nations will pass by this city and say to one another: “Why did Jehovah do this to this great city?”+ 9 And they will reply: “Because they abandoned the covenant of Jehovah their God and bowed down to other gods and served them.”’+

9 So he said to me: “The error of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great.+ The land is filled with bloodshed,+ and the city is full of corruption.+ For they say, ‘Jehovah has left the land, and Jehovah is not seeing.’+

7 To you, O Jehovah, belongs righteousness, but to us belongs shame* as is the case today, to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those nearby and far away, in all the lands to which you dispersed them because they acted unfaithfully toward you.+