A Prayer for Restoration and God's Forgiving Mercy
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Chapter 7
14Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, who dwell alone in a forest in the midst of Carmel. They will graze in Bashan and Gilead as in days of eternity.15As in the days when you came out of the land of Egypt, I will show them wonders.16Nations will see and be ashamed of all their strength. They will put hand on mouth; their ears will be deafened.17They will lick dust like a serpent, like crawlers of the earth. They will tremble from their enclosures to the LORD our God. They will fear and be in awe of you.18Who is a God like you, who lifts up iniquity and passes over transgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does not hold onto his anger forever, for he delights in steadfast love.19He will return and have compassion on us. He will subdue our iniquities and cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.20You will give truth to Jacob, steadfast love to Abraham, which you swore to our fathers from days of old.