Daniel 9:4-14

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⁴I prayed to the Lord my God and ^(A)made confession, saying, ^(B)“O Lord, the ^(C)great and awesome God, who ^(D)keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, ⁵^(E)we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly ^(F)and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. ⁶^(G)We have not listened to ^(H)your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to ^(I)our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. ⁷To you, ^(J)O Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, ^(K)those who are near and ^(L)those who are far away, in ^(M)all the lands to which you have driven them, because of ^(N)the treachery that they have committed against you. ⁸To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because ^(O)we have sinned against you. ⁹^(P)To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him ¹⁰^(Q)and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by ^(R)his servants the prophets. ¹¹^(S)All Israel has transgressed your law and turned aside, ^(T)refusing to obey your voice. ^(U)And the curse and oath ^(V)that are written in the Law of ^(W)Moses the servant of God have been poured out upon us, because ^(X)we have sinned against him. ¹²He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us and against ^(Y)our rulers who ruled us,^[a] by ^(Z)bringing upon us a great calamity. ^(AA)For under the whole heaven there has not been done anything like what has been done against Jerusalem. ¹³^(AB)As it is written in the Law of Moses, all this calamity has come upon us; yet we have not entreated the favor of the Lord our God, ^(AC)turning from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. ¹⁴^(AD)Therefore the Lord has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, ^(AE)for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and ^(AF)we have not obeyed his voice.