"I recount my ways and You answer me; teach me Your statutes. I confess my sins and disclose all my transgressions, saying: 'I have sinned against You, and You, for Your part, have disciplined me; may it be for the purpose of my sin that You have chastened me.' As it is said, 'We have sinned and we have transgressed, we have been wicked and we have rebelled, we have turned away from Your commandments and from Your ordinances' (Daniel 9:5).
'And we did not heed the voice of the Lord our God to follow His Torah which He set before us through His servants the prophets' (ibid. 10). Because of this, as it is said, 'Behold, we are today slaves, and as for the land that You gave to our forefathers to eat of its fruit and its goodness, behold, we are slaves upon it' (Nehemiah 9:36). Yet even though we are slaves, we are loyal to You, as it is said, 'But with all this we make a binding pledge and sign it, and we are righteous in everything that comes upon us' (ibid. 10:29).
'And You are righteous concerning all that has come upon us' (ibid. 9:33). Therefore it is said, 'I recount my ways and You answer me; teach me Your statutes' (Psalms 119:26). And even though I have sinned, I confess to You, for this reason You have taught me Your decrees."