The Prayer of Daniel (Dan. 9.4)

LORD GOD Almighty, great, & full of feare,
Who alwaies art from breach of promise free,
And neuer falling to haue mercy there,
Where they obserue thy lawes and honour Thee:
We haue transgressed, and amisse haue done;
We disobedient and rebellious were.
For, from thy Precepts we astray are gone;
And we departed from thy Iudgements are.

We did thy Seruants Prophecies withstand,
Who to our Dukes, our Kings, and Fathers came;
When they to all the People of the Land,
Proclaimed forth their message in thy Name.
In thee oh LORD, all righteousnesse appeares,
But publike shame to vs doth appertaine;
Eu'n as with them of Iudah now it fares,
And those that in Ierusalem remaine:

Yea, as to Isr'el now it doth befall;
Throughout those Lands in which they scatt'red be,
For that their great Transgression, wherewithall
They haue transgressed, and offended Thee.
To Vs, our Kings, our Dukes, and Fathers, doth
Disgrace pertaine (oh LORD) for angring Thee:
Yet, mercy, LORD our GOD, and pardon both,
To Thee belong, though we rebellious be.

We, did (indeed) peruersly disobey
Thy voyce (oh LORD our GOD) & would not heart,
To keepe those Lawes thou didst before vs lay,
By those thy Seruants, who thy Prophets were.
Eu'n all that of the race of Isra'el be,
Against thy Law, haue grieuously mis-done:
And that they might not listen vnto thee,
They backward from thy voyce oh LORD, are gone.

On them therefore, that Curse, & Oath descended,
Which in the Law of Moses written was;
(The Seruant of that God whom we offended)
And now his speeches he hath brought to passe.
On vs, and on our Iudges, he doth bring
That Plague, wherewith he threatned vs & them.
For, vnder Heau'n was neuer such a thing,
As now is faine vpon Ierusalem.

As Moses written-Law doth beare record,
Now all this mischiefe vpon them is brought.
And yet we prayed not before the LORD,
That leauing Sin, we might his Truth be taught.
For which respect, the LORD in wait hath laid,
That he, on vs inflict this Mischiefe, might.
And sith his holy Word we disobeyd.
In all his doings he remaines vpright.

But now, oh LORD our GOD, who from the Land
Of cruell Aegypt, brought thy People hast;
And by the power of thy Almighty hand,
Atchieu'd a Name, which to this day doth last:
Though we haue sinned in committing ill,
Yet LORD by that pure Righteousnesse in thee,
From thy Ierusalem, thy Holy-hill,
Oh! let thy wrathfull anger turned be.

For, through the guilt of our displeasing sinne,
And for our Fathers faults; Ierusalem,
(Thy chosen people) hath despised bin:
And are the scorne of all that neighbour them.
Now therefore to thy Seruants pray'r incline:
Heare thou his suite, oh GOD, and let thy face,
(Eu'n for the LORDS deare sake) vouchsafe to shine
Upon thy (now forsaken) Holy place.

Thine eares encline thou (oh my God) and heare:
Lift vp thine eyes, and vs, oh looke vpon;
Us, who forsaken with thy Citie are;
That Citie, where thy Name is called on.
For, we vpon our selues presume not thus.
Before thy presence our request to make.
For ought that righteous can be found in vs;
But for thy great and tender Mercies sake.

LORD heare (forgiue oh LORD) & weigh the same.
Oh LORD performe it, and no more deferre,
For thine owne sake, my GOD; For by thy Name,
Thy Citie and thy People called are.