It is fascinating to me on a number of counts that they should say this. It is fascinating first of all that they should say it in a public letter to a pagan ruler, that the reason we are in the condition we are in is because our fathers sinned. Our fathers broke God's covenant. Our fathers transgressed. Our fathers made God angry. That is their conclusion. It is an open public confession of sin.1
Derek W. H. Thomas
12 But because our fathers had angered the God of heaven, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, the Chaldean, who destroyed this house and carried away the people to Babylonia.