14. On the feast day and during the days of assembly, read aloud in the house of the Lord this scroll that we send you:
15. “To the Lord our God belongs justice; to us, people of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem, to be shamefaced, as on this day—
16. to us, our kings, rulers, priests, and prophets, and our ancestors.
17. We have sinned in the Lord’s sight
18. and disobeyed him. We have not listened to the voice of the Lord, our God, so as to follow the precepts the Lord set before us.