A Prayer For Mercy And Restoration

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WalterandDebbie

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Sunday 7-30-23 1st. Day Of The Weekly Cycle, AV 12 5783, 40th. Summer Day

Lamentations 5

The Review Of The Need For Restoration

1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

The Repentance Of Sin

15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

The Request For Restoration

19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

Love, Walter And Debbie
 
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Jay Ross

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Jeremaih wrote the Book of Lamentations as a lament over Israel for God's turning away from Israel for the last 2,000 or so years because of the visitation of the iniquities of the fathers on their children and their children's children during the third and the fourth age of their existence because of idolatrous worship.

Verses 19 and 20 above speaks of the two ages that the Lord God has turned his head away from seeing the Israelites.

Shalom
 
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