3 And I set my face to the Lord God to seek Him by prayer and supplications, with fasting and sackcloth and ashes;
4 And I prayed to the Lord my God and made confession and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, Who keeps covenant, mercy, and loving-kindness with those who love Him and keep His commandments,
5 We have sinned and dealt perversely and done wickedly and have rebelled, turning aside from Your commandments and ordinances.
6 Neither have we listened to and
heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings,
our princes and our fathers, and to all the people of the land.
7 O Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us confusion and
shame of face, as at this day–to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to those who are near and those who are
far off, through all the countries to which You have driven them
because of the [treacherous] trespass which they have committed against
You.
8 O Lord, to us belong confusion and shame of face–to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers–because we have sinned against You.
9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and loving-kindness and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against Him;
10
And we have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in His
laws which He set before us through His servants the prophets.
11
Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law, even turning aside that they
might not obey Your voice. Therefore the curse has been poured out on
us and the oath that is written in the Law of Moses the servant of God,
because we have sinned against Him. [Lev. 26:14-45; Deut. 28:15-68.]
12
And He has carried out intact His [threatening] words which He
threatened against us and against our judges [the kings, princes, and
rulers generally] who ruled us, and He has brought upon us a great evil;
for under the whole heavens there has not been done before [anything so
dreadful] as [He has caused to be] done against Jerusalem.
13
Just as it is written in the Law of Moses as to all this evil [that
would surely come upon transgressors], so it has come upon us. Yet we
have not earnestly begged for forgiveness and entreated the favor of the Lord our God, that we might turn from our iniquities and have understanding and become wise in Your truth. [Deut. 4:29; 28:15ff.]
14
Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity (evil) and has brought
it upon us, for the Lord our God is [uncompromisingly] righteous and rigidly just in all His works which He does [keeping His word]; and we have not obeyed His voice.
15 And now, O Lord our God, Who brought Your people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and secured Yourself renown and a name as at this day, we have sinned, we have done wickedly!
16 O Lord, according to all Your rightness and
justice, I beseech You, let Your anger and Your wrath be turned away
from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain. Because of our sins and
the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and Your people have become a
reproach and a byword to all who are around about us.
17 Now therefore, O our God, listen to and
heed the prayer of Your servant [Daniel] and his supplications, and for
Your own sake cause Your face to shine upon Your sanctuary which is
desolate.
18
O my God, incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and look at our
desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we do not
present our supplications before You for our own righteousness and justice, but for Your great mercy and loving-kindness.
19
O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, give heed and act! Do not delay,
for Your own sake, O my God, because Your city and Your people are
called by Your name.
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