Daniel 9:4-11

4I prayed to the lord my God, confessing in this way: “O Lord, great and awesome God who is faithful to his covenant with those who love him and keep his commandments,

5we have sinned! We have done what is wrong and wicked; we have rebelled by turning away from your commandments and standards.

6We have not paid attention to your servants the prophets, who spoke by your authority to our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors, and to all the inhabitants of the land as well.

7“You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day – the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.

8O lord, we have been humiliated – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.

9Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.

10We have not obeyed the lord our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.

11“All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.