Prayers for America
Then Moses returned to the LORD and said,
"Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold!
(Exodus 32:31)
if MY people who are called by MY name will humble themselves, and pray and seek MY face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Now MY eyes will be open and MY ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
(2 Chronicles 7: 14-15)
"Oh, these people have committed a great sin, and have made for themselves a god of gold!
(Exodus 32:31)
if MY people who are called by MY name will humble themselves, and pray and seek MY face,
and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.
Now MY eyes will be open and MY ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
(2 Chronicles 7: 14-15)
Then I set my face toward the Lord God
to make request by prayer and supplications,
with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.
And I prayed to the Lord my God,
and made confession, and said,
"O Lord, great and awesome God,
who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him,
and with those who keep His commandments, 5
we have sinned and committed iniquity,
we have done wickedly and rebelled,
even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments.
Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets,
who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes,
to our fathers and all the people of the land.
O Lord, righteousness belongs to You,
but to us shame of face, as it is this day--
to the men of Judah, to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those near and those far off in all the countries to which You have driven them,
because of the unfaithfulness
which they have committed against You.
O Lord, to us belongs shame of face,
to our kings, our princes, and our fathers,
because we have sinned against You.
To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness,
though we have rebelled against Him.
We have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God,
to walk in His laws, which He set before us
by His servants the prophets.
Yes, all Israel has transgressed Your law,
and has departed so as not to obey Your voice;
therefore the curse and the oath
written in the Law of Moses the servant of God
have been poured out on us,
because we have sinned against Him.
And He has confirmed His words, which He spoke against us
and against our judges who judged us,
by bringing upon us a great disaster;
for under the whole heaven such has never been done
as what has been done to Jerusalem.
As it is written in the Law of Moses,
all this disaster has come upon us;
yet we have not made our prayer before the Lord our God,
that we might turn from our iniquities and understand Your truth.
Therefore the Lord has kept the disaster in mind,
and brought it upon us;
for the Lord our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice.
And now, O Lord our God,
who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt
with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day--
we have sinned, we have done wickedly!
"O Lord, according to all Your righteousness, I pray,
let Your anger and Your fury
be turned away from Your city Jerusalem, Your holy mountain; because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers,
Jerusalem and Your people are a reproach to all those around us.
Now therefore, our God,
hear the prayer of Your servant, and his supplications,
and for the Lord's sake
cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate.
O my God, incline Your ear and hear;
open Your eyes and see our desolations,
and the city which is called by Your name;
for we do not present our supplications before You
because of our righteous deeds, but because of Your great mercies.
O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act!
Do not delay for Your own sake, my God, for Your city
and Your people are called by Your name."
(Daniel 9: 3-19)
"I pray, Lord God of heaven, O great and awesome God,
You who keep Your covenant and mercy
with those who love You and observe Your commandments,
please let Your ear be attentive and Your eyes open,
that You may hear the prayer of Your servant
which I pray before You now, day and night,
for the children of Israel Your servants,
and confess the sins of the children of Israel
which we have sinned against You.
Both my father's house and I have sinned.
We have acted very corruptly against You,
and have not kept the commandments, the statutes,
nor the ordinances which You commanded Your servant Moses.
Remember, I pray, the word
that You commanded Your servant Moses, saying,
'If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations;
but if you return to Me, and keep My commandments and do them, though some of you were cast out to the farthest part of the heavens, yet I will gather them from there,
and bring them to the place which I have chosen
as a dwelling for My name.'
Now these are Your servants and Your people,
whom You have redeemed by Your great power,
and by Your strong hand.
O Lord, I pray,
please let Your ear be attentive to the prayer of Your servant,
and to the prayer of Your servants who desire to fear Your name;
and let Your servant prosper this day, I pray,
and grant him mercy
(Nehemiah 1: 5-11)