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A Prayer of Penitence

15 Look down from heaven and see,
    from Your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength?
    The stirrings of Your heart and Your mercies toward me are restrained.
16 For You are our Father,
    though Abraham is ignorant of us
    and Israel does not recognize us.
You, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer;
    Your name is from everlasting.
17 O Lord, why have You made us to err from Your ways
    and hardened our heart from fearing You?
Return for Your servants’ sake,
    the tribes of Your inheritance.

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