Daniel 9:4-14

New American Bible (Revised Edition)

^4 (A)I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep your covenant and show mercy toward those who love you and keep your commandments and your precepts! ⁵ We have sinned, been wicked and done evil; we have rebelled and turned from your commandments and your laws. ⁶ We have not obeyed your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings, our princes, our ancestors, and all the people of the land. ⁷ Justice, O Lord, is on your side; we are shamefaced even to this day: the men of Judah, the residents of Jerusalem, and all Israel, near and far, in all the lands to which you have scattered them because of their treachery toward you. ⁸ O Lord, we are ashamed, like our kings, our princes, and our ancestors, for having sinned against you. ⁹ But to the Lord, our God, belong compassion and forgiveness, though we rebelled against him ¹⁰ and did not hear the voice of the Lord, our God, by walking in his laws given through his servants the prophets. ^11 (B)The curse and the oath written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, were poured out over us for our sins, because all Israel transgressed your law and turned aside, refusing to hear your voice. ¹² He fulfilled the words he spoke against us and against those who ruled us, by bringing upon us an evil—no evil so great has happened under heaven as happened in Jerusalem. ¹³ As it is written^[a] in the law of Moses, this evil has come upon us. We did not appease the Lord, our God, by turning back from our wickedness and acting according to your truth, ¹⁴ so the Lord kept watch over the evil and brought it upon us. The Lord, our God, is just in all that he has done: we did not listen to his voice.