A Prayer of Penitence

15 (A)Look down from heaven,
And see (B)from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning (C)of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?

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15 (A)Look down from Your holy [a]habitation, from heaven, and bless Your people Israel and the land which You have given us, just as You swore to our fathers, (B)“a land flowing with milk and honey.” ’

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 26:15 home

“How(A) can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, Israel?
How can I make you like (B)Admah?
How can I set you like Zeboiim?
My heart [a]churns within Me;
My sympathy is stirred.

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  1. Hosea 11:8 Lit. turns over

20 Is Ephraim My dear son?
Is he a pleasant child?
For though I spoke against him,
I earnestly remember him still;
(A)Therefore My [a]heart yearns for him;
(B)I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 31:20 Lit. inward parts

Prayer for Relief from Contempt

A Song of Ascents.

123 Unto You (A)I lift up my eyes,
O You (B)who dwell in the heavens.

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14 Return, we beseech You, O God of hosts;
(A)Look down from heaven and see,
And visit this vine

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14 From the place of His dwelling He looks
On all the inhabitants of the earth;

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17 But (A)whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

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Unity Through Humility

Therefore if there is any [a]consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any (A)affection and mercy,

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 2:1 Or encouragement

78 Through the tender mercy of our God,
With which the [a]Dayspring from on high [b]has visited us;

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  1. Luke 1:78 Lit. Dawn; the Messiah
  2. Luke 1:78 NU shall visit

50 Till the Lord from heaven
(A)Looks down and sees.

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True Worship and False

66 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?

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(A)In all their affliction He was [a]afflicted,
(B)And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
(C)In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
And (D)He bore them and carried them
All the days of old.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:9 Kt., LXX, Syr. not afflicted

17 (A)For He put on righteousness as a breastplate,
And a helmet of salvation on His head;
He put on the garments of vengeance for clothing,
And was clad with zeal as a cloak.

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15 For thus says the High and Lofty One
Who inhabits eternity, (A)whose name is Holy:
(B)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
(C)With him who has a contrite and humble spirit,
(D)To revive the spirit of the humble,
And to revive the heart of the contrite ones.

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(A)Awake, awake, (B)put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake (C)as in the ancient days,
In the generations of old.
(D)Are You not the arm that cut (E)Rahab apart,
And wounded the (F)serpent?

10 Are You not the One who (G)dried up the sea,
The waters of the great deep;
That made the depths of the sea a road
For the redeemed to cross over?

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15 “Can(A) a woman forget her nursing child,
[a]And not have compassion on the son of her womb?
Surely they may forget,
(B)Yet I will not forget you.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:15 Lit. From having compassion

11 Lord, when Your hand is lifted up, (A)they will not see.
But they will see and be ashamed
For [a]their envy of people;
Yes, the fire of Your enemies shall devour them.

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  1. Isaiah 26:11 Or Your zeal for the people

Of the increase of His government and peace
(A)There will be no end,
Upon the throne of David and over His kingdom,
To order it and establish it with judgment and justice
From that time forward, even forever.
The (B)zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

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(A)Who is like the Lord our God,
Who dwells on high,
(B)Who humbles Himself to behold
The things that are in the heavens and in the earth?

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19 For He (A)looked down from the height of His sanctuary;
From heaven the Lord viewed the earth,
20 (B)To hear the groaning of the prisoner,
To release those appointed to death,

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49 Lord, where are Your former lovingkindnesses,
Which You (A)swore to David (B)in Your truth?

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Will the Lord cast off forever?
And will He be favorable no more?
Has His mercy ceased forever?
Has His (A)promise failed [a]forevermore?
Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 77:8 Lit. unto generation and generation

Remember, O Lord, (A)Your tender mercies and Your lovingkindnesses,
For they are from of old.

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27 Then the priests, the Levites, arose and (A)blessed the people, and their voice was heard; and their prayer came up to (B)His holy dwelling place, to heaven.

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