Catholic Public Domain Version
"Do not hand us over forever, we ask you, because of your name, and do not abolish your covenant. "
— Daniel 3:34, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Deliver us not up for ever, we beseech thee, for thy name's sake, and abolish not thy covenant.”
Therefore, everything that you have brought upon us, and all that you have done for us, you have done in true judgment.
And you have delivered us into the hands of our enemies: traitors, unjust and most wicked, and to a king, unjust and most wicked, even more so than all others on earth.
And now we are not able to open our mouths. We have become a shame and a disgrace to your servants and to those who worship you.
Do not hand us over forever, we ask you, because of your name, and do not abolish your covenant.
And do not withdraw your mercy from us, because of Abraham, your beloved, and Isaac, your servant, and Israel, your holy one.
You have spoken with them, promising that you would multiply their offspring like the stars of heaven and like the sand on the seashore.
For we, O Lord, are diminished more than all other peoples, and we are brought low throughout all the earth, this day, because of our sins.