Isaiah 63:15
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A Prayer of Penitence
15 Look down from heaven and see,
from your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are your zeal and your might?
Your great pity and your compassion are withheld from me.(A)
Deuteronomy 26:15
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15 Look down from your holy habitation, from heaven, and bless your people Israel and the ground that you have given us, as you swore to our ancestors, a land flowing with milk and honey.’
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Hosea 11:8
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8 How can I give you up, Ephraim?
How can I hand you over, O Israel?
How can I make you like Admah?
How can I treat you like Zeboiim?
My heart recoils within me;
my compassion grows warm and tender.(A)
Jeremiah 31:20
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20 Is Ephraim my dear son?
Is he the child in whom I delight?
As often as I speak against him,
I still remember him.
Therefore I am deeply moved for him;
I will surely have mercy on him,
says the Lord.(A)
Psalm 123:1
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Psalm 123
Supplication for Mercy
A Song of Ascents.
1 To you I lift up my eyes,
O you who are enthroned in the heavens!(A)
Psalm 80:14
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14 Turn again, O God of hosts;
look down from heaven and see;
have regard for this vine,(A)
Psalm 33:14
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14 From where he sits enthroned he watches
all the inhabitants of the earth—
1 John 3:17
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17 How does God’s love abide in anyone who has the world’s goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?(A)
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Philippians 2:1
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Imitating Christ’s Humility
2 If, then, there is any comfort in Christ, any consolation from love, any partnership in the Spirit, any tender affection and sympathy,(A)
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Luke 1:78
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Lamentations 3:50
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50 until the Lord from heaven
looks down and sees.(A)
Isaiah 66:1
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The Worship God Demands
66 Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
so what kind of house could you build for me,
what sort of place for me to rest?(A)
Isaiah 63:9
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9 in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.(A)
Isaiah 59:17
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17 He put on righteousness like a breastplate
and a helmet of salvation on his head;
he put on garments of vengeance for clothing
and wrapped himself in fury as in a mantle.(A)
Isaiah 57:15
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15 For thus says the high and lofty one
who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy:
I dwell in the high and holy place
and also with those who are contrite and humble in spirit,
to revive the spirit of the humble
and to revive the heart of the contrite.(A)
Isaiah 51:9-10
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9 Awake, awake, put on strength,
O arm of the Lord!
Awake, as in days of old,
the generations of long ago!
Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces,
who pierced the dragon?(A)
10 Was it not you who dried up the sea,
the waters of the great deep;
who made the depths of the sea a way
for the redeemed to cross over?(B)
Isaiah 49:15
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15 Can a woman forget her nursing child
or show no compassion for the child of her womb?
Even these might forget,
yet I will not forget you.(A)
Isaiah 26:11
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11 O Lord, your hand is lifted up,
but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people and be ashamed.
Let the fire for your adversaries consume them.(A)
Isaiah 9:7
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7 Great will be his authority,[a]
and there shall be endless peace
for the throne of David and his kingdom.
He will establish and uphold it
with justice and with righteousness
from this time onward and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.(A)
Footnotes
- 9.7 Gk: Meaning of Heb uncertain
Psalm 113:5-6
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5 Who is like the Lord our God,
who is seated on high,(A)
6 who looks far down
on the heavens and the earth?(B)
Psalm 102:19-20
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19 that he looked down from his holy height,
from heaven the Lord looked at the earth,(A)
20 to hear the groans of the prisoners,
to set free those who were doomed to die,(B)
Psalm 89:49
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49 Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?(A)
Psalm 77:7-9
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7 “Will the Lord spurn forever
and never again be favorable?(A)
8 Has his steadfast love ceased forever?
Are his promises at an end for all time?(B)
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious?
Has he in anger shut up his compassion?” Selah(C)
Psalm 25:6
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6 Be mindful of your mercy, O Lord, and of your steadfast love,
for they have been from of old.(A)
2 Chronicles 30:27
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27 Then the priests and the Levites stood up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard; their prayer came to his holy dwelling in heaven.(A)
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