Ezra's prayer in the ninth chapter may be as brutally honest as any prayer in the Bible. The only other prayer is Psalm 51 with David's confession. He does not make it look better than it is and seems to indicate Israel is most fortunate in spite of obvious disobedience. Here is part of the prayer...
"My dear God, I'm so totally ashamed, I can't bear to face you. O my God—our iniquities are piled up so high that we can't see out; our guilt touches the skies. We've been stuck in a muck of guilt since the time of our ancestors until right now; we and our kings and priests, because of our sins, have been turned over to foreign kings, to killing, to captivity, to looting, and to public shame—just as you see us now."
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