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A Prayer for Restoration

Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us.

Look and see our disgrace!Ezk 5:14

Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,

our houses to foreigners.Jer 6:12

We have become fatherless orphans;

our mothers are widows.

We must buy the water we drink;

our wood comes at a price.Ezk 4:16

We are closely pursued;

we are weary and find no rest.

We submitted to Egypt and Assyria

to get enough bread.

Our fathers sinned and are no more,

but we bear their punishment.Exo 20:5; Jer 31:29; Ezk 8:2

Slaves rule over us;

there is no one to deliver us from their hands.Deu 28:48

We get our bread at the risk of our lives

because of the sword in the wilderness.

Our skin is as hot as an oven

with fever from our hunger.Ezk 22:22

Women have been ravished in Zion,

virgins in the cities of Judah.Deu 28:30

Princes have been hung up by their hands;

elders receive no respect.Lam 4:16

Young men toil at millstones;

boys stagger under loads of wood.

The elders have left the city gate;

the young men have stopped their music.

Joy has left our hearts;

our dancing has turned to mourning.Hos 2:11

The crown has fallen from our head.

Woe to us, for we have sinned!Jer 13:18

Because of this, our hearts are faint;

because of these, our eyes grow dim—Jer 13:16

because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate,

patrolled by foxes.

You, O LORD, reign forever;

Your throne endures from generation to generation.Psa 9:7

Why have You forgotten us forever?

Why have You forsaken us for so long?Psa 13:1

Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return;

renew our days as of old,Jer 31:18

unless You have utterly rejected us

and remain angry with us beyond measure.