GOD OF MERCY

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock that belongs to you,
which lives in a forest in the midst of a garden land; let them feed
in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old. As in the days when you
came out of the land of Egypt, show us marvelous things.
Who is like you, pardoning iniquity and passing over the
transgression of the remnant of your possession? He does not
retain his anger forever, because he delights in showing clemency.
He will again have compassion upon us; he will tread our iniquities
under foot. You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.
You will show faithfulness to Jacob and unswerving loyalty to
Abraham, as you have sworn to our ancestors from the days of old.

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