It is good that he waits silently For the salvation of the Lord.

For the Lord will not reject forever,

To defraud someone in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve.

Who is there who speaks and it comes to pass, Unless the Lord has commanded it?

Let’s examine and search out our ways, And let’s return to the Lord.

Until the Lord looks down And sees from heaven.

I called on Your name, Lord, Out of the lowest pit.

Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life.

Lord, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.

You have heard their reproach, Lord, All their schemes against me.

You will repay them, Lord, In accordance with the work of their hands.

You will pursue them in anger and eliminate them From under the heavens of the Lord!

The Lord has expended His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has consumed its foundations.

The presence of the Lord has scattered them, He will not continue to look at them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.

The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, “In his shadow We shall live among the nations.”

A Prayer for Mercy

Remember, Lord, what has come upon us; Look, and see our disgrace!

You, Lord, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.

Restore us to You, Lord, so that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old,