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The People Ask for Mercy

19 Have You utterly rejected Judah?
    Has Your soul loathed Zion?
Why have You stricken us
    so that there is no healing for us?
We looked for peace,
    but there was nothing good;
and for the time of healing,
    but there is trouble!
20 We acknowledge, O Lord, our wickedness
    and the iniquity of our fathers,
    for we have sinned against You.
21 Do not abhor us. For Your name’s sake,
    do not disgrace Your glorious throne.
Remember and do not break
    Your covenant with us.

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