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Habakkuk’s Prayer

Chapter 3

Canticle

What follows is a prayer of the prophet Habakkuk, accompanied by a plaintive tune.

Lord, I have heard of your renown;
    your work, O Lord, fills me with awe.
Make it live once again in our own time;
    in the course of the years make it known,
    and in your wrath remember to have compassion on us.

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