Daniel 9:1-15
Daniel’s Prayer for His People
aIn the first year of bDarius the son of Ahasuerus, by descent a cMede, who was made king over the realm of the dChaldeans— 2 in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, perceived in the books the number of years that, according to athe word of the Lord to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass before the end of the desolations of Jerusalem, namely, seventy years.
3 Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by aprayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes. 4 I prayed to the Lord my God and amade confession, saying, b“O Lord, the bgreat and awesome God, who ckeeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, 5 awe have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly band rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 aWe have not listened to byour servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to cour kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, aO Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, bthose who are near and bthose who are far away, in call the lands to which you have driven them, because of dthe treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because awe have sinned against you. 9 aTo the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 aand have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by bhis servants the prophets. 11 aAll Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, brefusing to obey your voice. cAnd the curse and oath dthat are written in the Law of eMoses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because fwe have sinned against him. 12 He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against aour rulers who ruled us, by bbringing upon us a great calamity. cFor under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. 13 aAs it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, bturning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. 14 aTherefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, bfor the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and cwe have not obeyed his voice. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt awith a mighty hand, and bhave made a name for yourself, as at this day, cwe have sinned, we have done wickedly.
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