Prayer of Azariah 7-9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

⁷ We have not obeyed your commandments;
    we have not kept them or done what you have commanded us for our own good.^(A)
8 So all that you have brought upon us
    and all that you have done to us,
    you have done by a true judgment.^(B)
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.^(C)