²⁹ Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.

⁴ Have you an arm like God? have you a voice of thunder like his?

¹⁹ Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:

¹³ The tax-farmer, on the other hand, keeping far away, and not lifting up even his eyes to heaven, made signs of grief and said, God, have mercy on me, a sinner.

¹⁸ I will get up and go to my father, and will say to him, Father, I have done wrong, against heaven and in your eyes:

¹⁹ I am no longer good enough to be named your son: make me like one of your servants.

³ Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.

⁹ Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?

¹⁴ May it not be that he will again let his purpose be changed and let a blessing come after him, even a meal offering and a drink offering for the Lord your God?

⁶³ So that, at the memory of these things, you may be at a loss, never opening your mouth because of your shame; when you have my forgiveness for all you have done, says the Lord.

¹⁷ And there is hope for the future, says the Lord; and your children will come back to the land which is theirs.

⁵ Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.

⁶ For this cause I give witness that what I said is false, and in sorrow I take my seat in the dust.

¹² And crying out to the Lord his God in his trouble, he made himself low before the God of his fathers,