Prayer of Azariah 1:5-11
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5 In all the things that thou hast brought upon us, and upon the holy city of our fathers, even Jerusalem, thou hast executed true judgment: for according to truth and judgment didst thou bring all these things upon us because of our sins.
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6 For we have sinned and committed iniquity, departing from thee.
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7 In all things have we trespassed, and not obeyed thy commandments, nor kept them, neither done as thou hast commanded us, that it might go well with us.
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8 Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment.
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9 And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most wicked in all the world.
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10 And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.
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11 Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name's sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant: