“From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of hosts. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

Deliver

Arise, O Lord, confront him, bring him low;

Deliver my soul from the wicked with Your sword,

Deliver my soul from the sword,
My only life from the power of the dog.

For Your lovingkindness toward me is great,
And You have delivered my soul from the depths of Sheol.

Then I called upon the name of the Lord:
“O Lord, I beseech You,

save my life!”

Deliver my soul, O Lord, from lying lips,
From a deceitful tongue.

The Lord will

protect you from all evil;

He will keep your soul.

“Lo, for my own welfare I had great bitterness;
It is You who has

kept my soul from the pit of nothingness,

For You have cast all my sins behind Your back.

For

Do not remember the sins of my youth or my transgressions;

According to Your lovingkindness remember me,

For Your goodness’ sake, O Lord.

But as for me, my prayer is to You, O Lord, at an acceptable time;
O God, in the greatness of Your lovingkindness,
Answer me with Your saving truth.

Do not remember the iniquities of our forefathers against us;

Let Your compassion come quickly to meet us,
For we are brought very low.

O my God, incline Your ear and hear! Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city which is called by Your name; for we are not

presenting our supplications before You on account of any merits of our own, but on account of Your great compassion.

to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved.

so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

General references

I said, “I will not see the Lord,
The Lord

in the land of the living;

I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.