Ezra 9:13
9:13 “Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.
Ezra 9:15
9:15 O
Lord God of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as a remnant this day. Indeed, we stand before you in our guilt. However, because of this guilt
no one can really stand before you.”
Nehemiah 9:33
9:33 You are righteous with regard to all that has happened to us, for you have acted faithfully.
It is we who have been in the wrong!
Psalms 39:9
39:9 I am silent and cannot open my mouth
because of what you have done.
Psalms 51:3-4
51:3 For I am aware of my rebellious acts;
I am forever conscious of my sin.
51:4 Against you – you above all – I have sinned;
I have done what is evil in your sight.
So you are just when you confront me;
you are right when you condemn me.
Daniel 9:7-14
9:7 “You are righteous, O Lord, but we are humiliated this day – the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, both near and far away in all the countries in which you have scattered them, because they have behaved unfaithfully toward you.
9:8 O LORD, we have been humiliated – our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors – because we have sinned against you.
9:9 Yet the Lord our God is compassionate and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
9:10 We have not obeyed the LORD our God by living according to his laws that he set before us through his servants the prophets.
9:11 “All Israel has broken your law and turned away by not obeying you. Therefore you have poured out on us the judgment solemnly threatened in the law of Moses the servant of God, for we have sinned against you.
9:12 He has carried out his threats against us and our rulers who were over us by bringing great calamity on us – what has happened to Jerusalem has never been equaled under all heaven!
9:13 Just as it is written in the law of Moses, so all this calamity has come on us. Still we have not tried to pacify the LORD our God by turning back from our sin and by seeking wisdom from your reliable moral standards.
9:14 The LORD was mindful of the calamity, and he brought it on us. For the LORD our God is just in all he has done, and we have not obeyed him.
Daniel 9:18-19
9:18 Listen attentively,
my God, and hear! Open your eyes and look on our desolated ruins
and the city called by your name.
For it is not because of our own righteous deeds that we are praying to you,
but because your compassion is abundant.
9:19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, pay attention, and act! Don’t delay, for your own sake, O my God! For your city and your people are called by your name.”