NATION, Prayer for

Psalms 85:1-7

1. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob.

2. Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people, thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

3. Thou hast taken away all thy wrath: thou hast turned thyself from the fierceness of thine anger.

4. Turn us, O God of our salvation, and cause thine anger toward us to cease.

5. Wilt thou be angry with us for ever? wilt thou draw out thine anger to all generations?

6. Wilt thou not revive us again: that thy people may rejoice in thee?

7. Shew us thy mercy, O LORD, and grant us thy salvation.

Lamentations 2:20-22

20. Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21. The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.

22. Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Lamentations 5:1-22

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 musick.

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.

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.

Lamentations 9:3-21