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A Prayer for Mercy and Restoration
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
Prayer for Restoration
LORD, remember what has happened to us.
See how we have been disgraced!
LORD, remember what has happened to us.
See how we have been disgraced!
Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,
our homes to foreigners.
our homes to foreigners.
We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
We are orphaned and fatherless.
Our mothers are widowed.
Our mothers are widowed.
We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
We have to pay for water to drink,
and even firewood is expensive.
and even firewood is expensive.
Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
Those who pursue us are at our heels;
we are exhausted but are given no rest.
we are exhausted but are given no rest.
We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
We submitted to Egypt and Assyria
to get enough food to survive.
to get enough food to survive.
Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
Our ancestors sinned, but they have died —
and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
and we are suffering the punishment they deserved!
Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
Slaves have now become our masters;
there is no one left to rescue us.
there is no one left to rescue us.
We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
We hunt for food at the risk of our lives,
for violence rules the countryside.
for violence rules the countryside.
Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
The famine has blackened our skin
as though baked in an oven.
as though baked in an oven.
They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
Our princes are being hanged by their thumbs,
and our elders are treated with contempt.
and our elders are treated with contempt.
They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
Young men are led away to work at millstones,
and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
and boys stagger under heavy loads of wood.
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
The elders no longer sit in the city gates;
the young men no longer dance and sing.
the young men no longer dance and sing.
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Joy has left our hearts;
our dancing has turned to mourning.
our dancing has turned to mourning.
The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.
Our hearts are sick and weary,
and our eyes grow dim with tears.
and our eyes grow dim with tears.
Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
But LORD, you remain the same forever!
Your throne continues from generation to generation.
Your throne continues from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?
Why do you continue to forget us?
Why have you abandoned us for so long?
Why have you abandoned us for so long?
Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Restore us, O LORD, and bring us back to you again!
Give us back the joys we once had!
Give us back the joys we once had!