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O Lord Almighty, God of our ancestors, of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and of their righteous offspring;
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you who made heaven and earth with all their order;
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who shackled the sea by your word of command, who confined the deep and sealed it with your terrible and glorious name;
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at whom all things shudder, and tremble before your power,
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for your glorious splendor cannot be borne, and the wrath of your threat to sinners is unendurable;
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yet immeasurable and unsearchable is your promised mercy,
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for you are the Lord Most High, of great compassion, long-suffering, and very merciful, and you relent at human suffering. O Lord, according to your great goodness you have promised repentance and forgiveness to those who have sinned against you, and in the multitude of your mercies you have appointed repentance for sinners, so that they may be saved.