07/07/2023
Our True God—You who are great, majestic, and awesome,You who always keep Your covenant of loyal love—do not overlook the trouble we are facing here today.This trouble confronts us all:our kings and our princes,our priests and our prophets, our ancestors and all of Your people—From the time of the Assyrian kings until today. You are righteous in all that You have done to us.You have faithfully upheld Your part of the covenant,but we have acted with evil. None of our kings, princes, priests, or ancestors followed Your law.They actively rejected Your commands and ignored the many warnings You sent. Even when they had everything—when they ruled in their own land without worry according to Your great generosity,When they relaxed into the spacious and fertile landYou set before them—Even then they refused to serve Youor turn away from their wicked ways. And we are once again slaves in the bountiful landYou gave to our ancestors for our pleasure and enjoyment—we are slaves in our own land! We have sown sin, and the labor we provide on this land feeds the kings You have placed over us.Our bodies and our beasts do not belong to us,But to them, and they do with us what they want.Our distress is great. In light of it, we are writing a covenantal agreement.It is sealed with the names of our leaders, our Levites, and our priests.
Our True God—You who are great, majestic, and awesome, You who always keep Your covenant of loyal love— do not overlook the trouble we are facing here today. This trouble confronts us all: our kings and our princes, our priests and our prophets, our ancestors and all of Your people— From the t...