With Memorial Day
just behind us and the 4th of July coming soon, we’re reminded of
our patriotic past but also our future uncertainties, which gives us time to
pray NOW!
May this and
other Bible prayers guide us into keeping God’s Word as we pray, not only for our nation, but for all peoples who need God's help:
A prayer of God’s people from
the King James Version of
Lamentations 5:1-5, 19-21
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach.
Our inheritance is turned to strangers,
our houses to aliens.
We are orphans and fatherless,
our mothers are as widows.
We have drunken our water for money;
our wood is sold unto us.
Our necks are under persecution:
we labour, and have no rest.
Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever;
thy throne from generation to generation.
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
and forsake us so long time?
Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord,
and we shall be turned; renew our days
as of old.
From the Book of KJV Prayers - actual prayers from the King
James Version of the Bible (KJV) collected by Mary Harwell Sayler, ©2019
A timely prayer of God’s people as
paraphrased from many translations
of Lamentations 5:1-5, 19-21
Lord, do You remember
what has happened to us?
Can You see how disgraced
we have been?
Strangers
have our inheritance,
foreigners our homes.
We are orphaned
and fatherless.
Our mothers are widows.
We have to pay
for water to drink,
and firewood costs too much!
People who pursue us
close in on our heels.
We’re so tired, Lord,
and we have no rest.
But, You, Lord, remain
the same forever.
From generation to generation,
You remain on Your throne,
and yet You keep forgetting us.
Why have You let us go for so long?
Restore us, O Lord!
Bring us back to You!
Give us the joy we once had.
From the Book of Bible
Prayers – actual prayers of the Bible collected from
a variety of translations researched on Bible Gateway then
paraphrased into everyday English by Mary Harwell Sayler, ©2019.
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