Old Testament Prayers
Daniel's Prayer of Confession
We Have Sinned
Description
Understanding from Jeremiah's prophecy that the exile would last seventy years, Daniel prayed—confessing Israel's sin, acknowledging God's righteousness, and pleading for Jerusalem's restoration.
Key Verses
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes: And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments; We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled... O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God.