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And the Lord has kept the calamities ready, and the Lord has brought them upon us, for the Lord is righteous in all his works which he has commanded us to do.
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Yet we have not obeyed his voice, to walk in the statutes of the Lord which he set before us.
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"`And now, O Lord God of Israel, who didst bring thy people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and with signs and wonders and with great power and outstretched arm, and hast made thee a name, as at this day,
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we have sinned, we have been ungodly, we have done wrong, O Lord our God, against all thy ordinances.
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Let thy anger turn away from us, for we are left, few in number, among the nations where thou hast scattered us.
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Hear, O Lord, our prayer and our supplication, and for thy own sake deliver us, and grant us favor in the sight of those who have carried us into exile;
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that all the earth may know that thou art the Lord our God, for Israel and his descendants are called by thy name.
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O Lord, look down from thy holy habitation, and consider us. Incline thy ear, O Lord, and hear;
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open thy eyes, O Lord, and see; for the dead who are in Hades, whose spirit has been taken from their bodies, will not ascribe glory or justice to the Lord,
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but the person that is greatly distressed, that goes about bent over and feeble, and the eyes that are failing, and the person that hungers, will ascribe to thee glory and righteousness, O Lord.
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For it is not because of any righteous deeds of our fathers or our kings that we bring before thee our prayer for mercy, O Lord our God.