Daniel 9:4-11

4I prayed to the Lord my God and confessed: “O Lord, you are a great and awesome God! You always fulfill your covenant and keep your promises of unfailing love to those who love you and obey your commands.

5But we have sinned and done wrong. We have rebelled against you and scorned your commands and regulations.

6We have refused to listen to your servants the prophets, who spoke on your authority to our kings and princes and ancestors and to all the people of the land.

7“Lord, you are in the right; but as you see, our faces are covered with shame. This is true of all of us, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.

8O Lord, we and our kings, princes, and ancestors are covered with shame because we have sinned against you.

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

10We have not obeyed the Lord our God, for we have not followed the instructions he gave us through his servants the prophets.

11All Israel has disobeyed your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice. “So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured down on us because of our sin.