^{33 Ref} However you are just in all that is come on us; for you have dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

^{34 Ref} neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept your law, nor listened to your commandments and your testimonies with which you did testify against them.

^{35 Ref} For they have not served you in their kingdom, and in your great goodness that you gave them, and in the large and fat land which you gave before them, neither turned they from their wicked works.

^{36 Ref} Behold, we are servants this day, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat the fruit of it and the good of it, behold, we are servants in it.

^{37 Ref} It yields much increase to the kings whom you have set over us because of our sins: also they have power over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their pleasure, and we are in great distress.

^{38 Ref} Yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, our Levites, [and] our priests, seal to it.