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O Lord, the righteousness
belongs unto thee, but unto us the confusion of face, as at this day; to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto all Israel,
that are near and
that are far off through all the lands where thou hast driven them because of their rebellion with which they have rebelled against thee.
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O Lord, to us
belongs confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
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Of the Lord our God is
the ability to have mercy and to forgive, even though
we have rebelled against him
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and have not listened to the voice of the LORD our God to walk by his laws, which he set before us by the hand of his slaves the prophets.
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And all Israel transposed thy law, departing by not hearing thy voice; by which the curse has fallen upon us and the oath that
is written in the law of Moses, the slave of God, because we have sinned against him.
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And he has confirmed his words, which he spoke over us and over our judges that governed us, by bringing upon us such a great evil: that
such has never been done under the whole heaven as has been done upon Jerusalem.
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As
it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us, and we never sought the face of the LORD our God, that we might be converted from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
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And the LORD hastened upon the chastisement and brought it upon us: for the LORD our God
is just in all his works which he has done, for we did not listen to his voice.
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And now, O Lord our God, who hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand and hast won for thyself a very clear name as appears unto this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.
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O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because for our sins and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and all thy people is given in reproach to all
that are about us.
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Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy slave and his supplications and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is made desolate, by the Lord.