Prayer of Azariah 1:10
King James VersionSource notes
“And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.”
Context
7In 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.
8Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment.
9And 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.
10And now we cannot open our mouths, we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants; and to them that worship thee.
11Yet deliver us not up wholly, for thy name’s sake, neither disannul thou thy covenant:
12And cause not thy mercy to depart from us, for thy beloved Abraham’s sake, for thy servant Issac’s sake, and for thy holy Israel’s sake;
13To whom thou hast spoken and promised, that thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that lieth upon the seashore.