^{10 Ref} And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

^{11 Ref} which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land through the uncleanness of the peoples of the lands, through their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their filthiness: