Daniel 9:16
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16 O Lord, in view of all your righteous acts, let your anger and wrath, we pray, turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain; because of our sins and the iniquities of our ancestors, Jerusalem and your people have become a disgrace among all our neighbors.(A)
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Zechariah 8:3
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3 Thus says the Lord: I will return to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city, and the mountain of the Lord of hosts shall be called the holy mountain.(A)
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Joel 3:17
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The Glorious Future of Judah
17 So you shall know that I, the Lord your God,
dwell in Zion, my holy mountain.
And Jerusalem shall be holy,
and strangers shall never again pass through it.(A)
Daniel 9:20
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The Seventy Weeks
20 While I was speaking and was praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel and presenting my supplication before the Lord my God on behalf of the holy mountain of my God,(A)
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Psalm 31:1
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Psalm 31
Prayer and Praise for Deliverance from Enemies
To the leader. A Psalm of David.
1 In you, O Lord, I seek refuge;
do not let me ever be put to shame;
in your righteousness deliver me.(A)
Lamentations 2:15-16
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15 All who pass along the way
clap their hands at you;
they hiss and wag their heads
at daughter Jerusalem:
“Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of all the earth?”(A)
16 All your enemies
open their mouths against you;
they hiss, they gnash their teeth,
they cry: “We have devoured her!
Ah, this is the day we longed for;
at last we have seen it!”(B)
Psalm 87:1-3
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Psalm 87
The Joy of Living in Zion
Of the Korahites. A Psalm. A Song.
1 On the holy mount stands the city he founded;
2 the Lord loves the gates of Zion
more than all the dwellings of Jacob.(A)
3 Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God. Selah(B)
Psalm 79:4
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4 We have become a taunt to our neighbors,
mocked and derided by those around us.(A)
Psalm 71:2
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2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me and save me.(A)
Exodus 20:5
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5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(A)
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1 John 1:9
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9 If we confess our sins, he who is faithful and just will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.(A)
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2 Thessalonians 1:6
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6 For it is indeed just of God to repay with affliction those who afflict you
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Luke 11:47-51
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47 Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.(A) 48 So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 For this reason the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,’(B) 50 so that this generation may be charged with the blood of all the prophets shed since the foundation of the world, 51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.(C)
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Matthew 23:31-32
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31 Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.
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Micah 6:4-5
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4 For I brought you up from the land of Egypt
and redeemed you from the house of slavery,
and I sent before you Moses,
Aaron, and Miriam.(A)
5 O my people, remember now what King Balak of Moab devised,
what Balaam son of Beor answered him,
and what happened from Shittim to Gilgal,
that you may know the saving acts of the Lord.”(B)
Ezekiel 5:14
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14 Moreover, I will make you a desolation and an object of mocking among the nations around you, in the sight of all who pass by.(A)
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Lamentations 1:8-9
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8 Jerusalem sinned grievously,
so she has become a filthy thing;
all who honored her despise her,
for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself groans
and turns her face away.(A)
9 Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
she took no thought of her future;
her downfall was appalling,
with none to comfort her.
Look, O Lord, at my affliction,
for the enemy has triumphed!(B)
Jeremiah 32:32
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32 because of all the evil of the people of Israel and the people of Judah that they did to provoke me to anger—they, their kings and their officials, their priests and their prophets, the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.(A)
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Jeremiah 29:18
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18 I will pursue them with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence and will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an object of cursing and horror and hissing and a derision among all the nations where I have driven them,(A)
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Jeremiah 24:9
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9 I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth—a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.(A)
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Isaiah 64:9-11
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9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.(A)
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(B)
11 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(C)
Psalm 143:1
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Psalm 143
Prayer for Deliverance from Enemies
A Psalm of David.
1 Hear my prayer, O Lord;
give ear to my supplications in your faithfulness;
answer me in your righteousness.(A)
Psalm 106:6-48
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6 Both we and our ancestors have sinned;
we have committed iniquity, have done wickedly.(A)
7 Our ancestors, when they were in Egypt,
did not consider your wonderful works;
they did not remember the abundance of your steadfast love
but rebelled against the Most High[a] at the Red Sea.[b](B)
8 Yet he saved them for his name’s sake,
so that he might make known his mighty power.(C)
9 He rebuked the Red Sea,[c] and it became dry;
he led them through the deep as through a desert.(D)
10 So he saved them from the hand of the foe
and delivered them from the hand of the enemy.(E)
11 The waters covered their adversaries;
not one of them was left.(F)
12 Then they believed his words;
they sang his praise.(G)
13 But they soon forgot his works;
they did not wait for his counsel.(H)
14 But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness
and put God to the test in the desert;(I)
15 he gave them what they asked
but sent a wasting disease among them.(J)
16 They were jealous of Moses in the camp
and of Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.(K)
17 The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan
and covered the faction of Abiram.(L)
18 Fire also broke out in their company;
the flame burned up the wicked.(M)
19 They made a calf at Horeb
and worshiped a cast image.(N)
20 They exchanged the glory of God[d]
for the image of an ox that eats grass.(O)
21 They forgot God, their Savior,
who had done great things in Egypt,(P)
22 wondrous works in the land of Ham,
and awesome deeds by the Red Sea.[e](Q)
23 Therefore he said he would destroy them—
had not Moses, his chosen one,
stood in the breach before him,
to turn away his wrath from destroying them.(R)
24 Then they despised the pleasant land,
having no faith in his promise.(S)
25 They grumbled in their tents
and did not obey the voice of the Lord.(T)
26 Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them
that he would make them fall in the wilderness(U)
27 and would disperse[f] their descendants among the nations,
scattering them over the lands.(V)
28 Then they attached themselves to the Baal of Peor
and ate sacrifices offered to the dead;(W)
29 they provoked the Lord to anger with their deeds,
and a plague broke out among them.
30 Then Phinehas stood up and interceded,
and the plague was stopped.(X)
31 And that has been reckoned to him as righteousness
from generation to generation forever.(Y)
32 They angered the Lord[g] at the waters of Meribah,
and it went ill with Moses on their account,(Z)
33 for they made his spirit bitter,
and he spoke words that were rash.(AA)
34 They did not destroy the peoples,
as the Lord had commanded them,(AB)
35 but they mingled with the nations
and learned to do as they did.(AC)
36 They served their idols,
which became a snare to them.(AD)
37 They sacrificed their sons
and their daughters to the demons;(AE)
38 they poured out innocent blood,
the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
and the land was polluted with blood.(AF)
39 Thus they became unclean by their acts
and prostituted themselves in their doings.(AG)
40 Then the anger of the Lord was kindled against his people,
and he abhorred his heritage;(AH)
41 he gave them into the hand of the nations,
so that those who hated them ruled over them.(AI)
42 Their enemies oppressed them,
and they were brought into subjection under their power.
43 Many times he delivered them,
but they were rebellious in their purposes
and were brought low through their iniquity.(AJ)
44 Nevertheless, he regarded their distress
when he heard their cry.(AK)
45 For their sake he remembered his covenant
and showed compassion according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(AL)
46 He caused them to be pitied
by all who held them captive.(AM)
47 Save us, O Lord our God,
and gather us from among the nations,
that we may give thanks to your holy name
and glory in your praise.(AN)
48 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
And let all the people say, “Amen.”
Praise the Lord!(AO)
Psalm 41:13
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13 Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting.
Amen and Amen.(A)
Nehemiah 9:8
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8 and you found his heart faithful before you and made with him a covenant to give to his descendants the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite, and you have fulfilled your promise, for you are righteous.(A)
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