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In our day we have no ruler, or prophet, or leader, no burnt offering, or sacrifice, or oblation, or incense, no place to make an offering before you and to find mercy.
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Yet with a contrite heart and a humble spirit may we be accepted,
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as though it were with burnt offerings of rams and bulls, or with tens of thousands of fat lambs; such may our sacrifice be in your sight today, and may we unreservedly follow you, for no shame will come to those who trust in you.
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And now with all our heart we follow you; we fear you and seek your presence.
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Do not put us to shame, but deal with us in your patience and in your abundant mercy.
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Deliver us in accordance with your marvelous works, and bring glory to your name, O Lord.
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Let all who do harm to your servants be put to shame; let them be disgraced and deprived of all power, and let their strength be broken.
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Let them know that you alone are the Lord God, glorious over the whole world."
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Now the king's servants who threw them in kept stoking the furnace with naphtha, pitch, tow, and brushwood.
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And the flames poured out above the furnace forty-nine cubits,
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and spread out and burned those Chaldeans who were caught near the furnace.