Daniel 9:4-19
Read Daniel 9 in full →4And I prayed to Yahweh my God and confessed and said, “Alas, O Lord, the agreat and awesome God, who bkeeps His covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments, 5awe have sinned and committed iniquity and acted wickedly and brebelled, even cturning aside from Your commandments and judgments. 6“Moreover, we have not alistened to Your slaves the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings, our princes, our fathers, and all the people of the land.
7“aTo You, O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us 1,bopen shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in call the countries to which You have banished them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You. 8“O Yahweh, to us belongs 1open shame, to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, because we have sinned against You. 9“To the Lord our God belong acompassion and forgiveness, 1for we have brebelled against Him; 10nor have we listened to the voice of Yahweh our God, to walk in His 1laws which He aput before us through His slaves the prophets. 11“Indeed aall Israel has trespassed against Your law, even turning aside, not listening to Your voice; so the bcurse has been poured out on us, along with the oath which is written in the 1law of Moses the 2servant of God, for we have sinned against Him. 12“Thus He has aestablished His words which He had spoken against us and against our bjudges who judged us, to bring on us great calamity; for under the whole heaven there has cnot been done anything like what was done to Jerusalem. 13“As it is written in the 1,alaw of Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have bnot 2entreated the favor of Yahweh our God by cturning from our iniquity and acting wisely in Your truth. 14“Therefore Yahweh has awatched over the calamity and brought it on us; for Yahweh our God is brighteous with respect to all His deeds which He has done, but we have not listened to His voice.
15“So now, O Lord our God, who have abrought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a strong hand and have bmade a name for Yourself, as it is this day—we have sinned; we have acted wickedly. 16“O Lord, in accordance with all Your righteousness, let now Your aanger and Your wrath turn away from Your city Jerusalem, Your bholy mountain; for because of our sins and the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a creproach to all those around us. 17“So now, our God, listen to the prayer of Your slave and to his supplications, and for 1Your sake, O Lord, alet Your face shine on Your bdesolate sanctuary. 18“O my God, aincline Your ear and listen! Open Your eyes and bsee our desolations and the city which is ccalled by Your name; for we are not 1,dpresenting our supplications before You on account of any righteousness of our own, but on account of Your abundant compassion. 19“O Lord, listen! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give heed and take action! For Your own sake, O my God, ado not delay, because Your city and Your people are called by Your name.”
