9:4 我向耶和華─我的上帝祈禱、認罪，說：「主啊，大而可畏的上帝，向愛主、守主誡命的人守約施慈愛。
9:5 我們犯罪作孽，行惡叛逆，偏離你的誡命典章，
9:6 沒有聽從你僕人眾先知奉你名向我們君王、首領、列祖，和國中一切百姓所說的話。
9:7 主啊，你是公義的，我們是臉上蒙羞的；因我們猶大人和耶路撒冷的居民，並以色列眾人，或在近處，或在遠處，被你趕到各國的人，都得罪了你，正如今日一樣。
9:8 主啊，我們和我們的君王、首領、列祖因得罪了你，就都臉上蒙羞。
9:9 主─我們的上帝是憐憫饒恕人的，我們卻違背了他，
9:10 也沒有聽從耶和華─我們上帝的話，沒有遵行他藉僕人眾先知向我們所陳明的律法。
4 I
prayed to the Lord my God and made confession, saying, "O Lord, the great
and awesome God, who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him
and keep his commandments, 5 we have sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly
and rebelled, turning aside from your commandments and rules. 6 We have not
listened to your servants the prophets, who spoke in your name to our kings,
our princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the land. 7 To you, O
Lord, belongs righteousness, but to us open shame, as at this day, to the men
of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, those who are
near and those who are far away, in all the lands to which you have driven
them, because of the treachery that they have committed against you. 8 To us, O
Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers,
because we have sinned against you. 9 To the Lord our God belong mercy and
forgiveness, for we have rebelled against him 10 and have not obeyed the voice
of the Lord our God by walking in his laws, which he set before us by his
servants the prophets.
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但以理向上帝認罪，承認以色列人犯罪悖逆上帝，以致蒙羞。但以理說「我們犯罪作孽」，把自己也當成是整體以色列人中的一份子。我們在處理國家、社會的罪惡問題時，是否僅僅把罪惡當成是別人的事，而把自己排除在外？其實在社會整體的敗壞中，我們又怎能真正完全置身度外呢？
當然這和我們與社會或國家之認同有關係，台灣人一直覺得自己是受外來者統治，所以對國家社會的認同是不太高。這事歷史造成的問題，但是近年來台灣民主化的進步較多，相信認同上有提升，只是讓人難過的是，台灣一直被矮化為中國的一部分。但事實上，中國政府並沒有統治過這個地方，這又怎麼說呢？
雖然過去的國民政府把此當「逃城」，而現今的台灣人卻又沒有認清：上帝讓我們在此成為主地的主人時，我們該如何謙卑敬拜上帝？榮耀上帝？還是受到過去當附庸者的心態影響，常常看附近大國的眼色生活，覺得可悲啊！這或許是我們該認的罪吧！
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