8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
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Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. …
The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
We acknowledge, O LORD, our wickedness, and the iniquity of our fathers: for we have sinned against thee.
Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. …
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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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