²⁰ So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

³² 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.