Daniel 9:4-10
Praying to the LORD, I confessed:
O Lord, great God of Whom I am in awe,
You keep Your promises
and show mercy to those who love and obey You,
but we have sinned!
We’ve done wrong!
We have turned away from You
and what You told us is right and true.
We have not listened
to Your servants or the word You gave
to our leaders, our ancestors,
and the people of our land.
To You belongs righteousness, O LORD,
but to us belongs shame.
We, Your people near and far –
in all the lands to which You dispersed us
because of our disloyalty to You –
own our own shame.
We, the people and our leaders,
have not followed You nor obeyed You,
but even though we have rebelled
against You, O LORD God,
to You belong
mercy,
compassion,
and forgiveness.
© 2015, Mary Harwell Sayler prayer-a-phrased today’s reading in Daniel 9 from some of the many translations of Holy Scripture found on Bible Gateway.
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