^{10 Ref} And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,

^{11 Ref} Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.