^{31 Ref} Even then, in your great mercy, you did not put an end to them completely, or give them up; for you are a God of grace and mercy.

^{32 Ref} And now, our God, the great, the strong, the God who is to be feared, who keeps faith and mercy, let not all this trouble seem small to you, which has come on us, and on our kings and our rulers and on our priests and our prophets and our fathers and on all your people from the time of the kings of Assyria till this day.