Biblical Protestant Prayer
Daniel's Prayer
Daniel's Prayer is a biblical prayer of confession, repentance, intercession, and appeal for God's mercy from Daniel 9.
Biblical setting
Daniel's Prayer appears in Daniel 9 as Daniel seeks the LORD with prayer, supplications, fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
The prayer confesses the sins of the people, acknowledges God's righteousness, remembers God's covenant mercy, and asks Him to hear, forgive, and restore.
Why it matters in Protestant prayer
In Protestant prayer life, Daniel's Prayer is often remembered as a model of humble confession, intercession, repentance, and appeal to God's mercy.
It gives language for praying not only as an individual, but on behalf of a people, a church, a community, or a nation in need of God's forgiveness and restoration.
How it may be prayed
Daniel's Prayer may be prayed word for word, read slowly as a confession, or used as a guide for interceding with humility, honesty, and trust in God's covenant mercy.
Source note
PWG currently provides the King James Version wording of Daniel 9:4-19 for this Protestant prayer path. Other modern Bible translations may have separate copyright or permission considerations.