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Prayer for Mercy and Help
1 1Ch 63:19b in HebOh, that You would rend the heavens and AEx 19:18; Ps 18:9; 144:5; Mic 1:3, 4; Hab 3:13come down,
That the mountains might BJudg 5:5; Ps 68:8; Nah 1:5quake at Your presence—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the APs 99:1; Jer 5:22; 33:9nations may tremble at Your presence!
3 When You did APs 65:5; 66:3, 5; 106:22awesome things which we did not expect,
You came down, the mountains quaked at Your presence.
4 For from days of old A1 Cor 2:9they have not heard or perceived by ear,
Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,
Who acts in behalf of the one who BIs 25:9; 30:18; 40:31waits for Him.
Who CIs 26:13; 63:7remembers You in Your ways.
Behold, DIs 12:1You were angry, for we sinned,
We continued in them a long time;
And shall we be saved?
6 For all of us have become like one who is AIs 6:5unclean,
And all our BIs 46:12; 48:1righteous deeds are like a filthy garment;
And all of us CPs 90:5, 6; Is 1:30wither like a leaf,
And our DIs 50:1iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 There is AIs 59:4; Ezek 22:30no one who calls on Your name,
Who arouses himself to take hold of You;
For You have BDeut 31:18; Is 1:15; 54:8hidden Your face from us
And have 1Reading with the DSS and versions; M.T. melteddelivered us into the power of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Loʀᴅ, AIs 63:16You are our Father,
We are the BIs 29:16; 45:9clay, and You our potter;
And all of us are the CPs 100:3; Is 60:21work of Your hand.
9 Do not be AIs 57:17; 60:10angry beyond measure, O Loʀᴅ,
BIs 43:25; Mic 7:18Nor remember iniquity forever;
Behold, look now, all of us are CPs 79:13; Is 63:8Your people.
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful A2 Kin 25:9; Ps 74:5-7; Is 63:18house,
Where our fathers praised You,
Has been burned by fire;
And BLam 1:7, 10, 11all our precious things have become a ruin.
12 Will You APs 74:10, 11, 18, 19; Is 42:14; 63:15restrain Yourself at these things, O Loʀᴅ?
Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?
164:1 Ch 63:19b in Heb
A64:1 Ex 19:18; Ps 18:9; 144:5; Mic 1:3, 4; Hab 3:13
B64:1 Judg 5:5; Ps 68:8; Nah 1:5
164:2 Ch 64:1 in Heb
A64:3 Ps 65:5; 66:3, 5; 106:22
B64:7 Deut 31:18; Is 1:15; 54:8
164:7 Reading with the DSS and versions; M.T. melted
A64:11 2 Kin 25:9; Ps 74:5-7; Is 63:18
A64:12 Ps 74:10, 11, 18, 19; Is 42:14; 63:15