14Therefore hath the LORD watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.
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O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through all the countries whither thou hast driven them, because of their trespass that they have trespassed against thee.
Howbeit thou art just in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly:
Behold, I will watch over them for evil, and not for good: and all the men of Judah that are in the land of Egypt shall be consumed by the sword and by the famine, until there be an end of them.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God, thou God of my salvation: and my tongue shall sing aloud of thy righteousness.
And it shall come to pass, that like as I have watched over them, to pluck up, and to break down, and to throw down, and to destroy, and to afflict; so will I watch over them, to build, and to plant, saith the LORD.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-19)We have here Daniel’s prayer to God as his God, and the confession which he joined with that prayer: I prayed, and made my confession . Note, In every prayer we must make confession, not only of the sins we have been guilty of (which we commonly call confession ), but of our faith in God and dependence upon him, our sorrow for sin and our resolutions against it. It must be our confession, must be…
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