Prayer of Azariah 7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ We have not obeyed your commandments,
    we have not kept them or done what you have commanded us for our own good.
⁸ So all that you have brought upon us,
    and all that you have done to us,
    you have done by a true judgement.
⁹ You have handed us over to our enemies, lawless and hateful rebels,
    and to an unjust king, the most wicked in all the world.