Prayer of Repentance
for America
“Please, ADONAI, Great and Fearsome GOD, who keeps His Covenant and extends Grace to those who love Him and observe His Commands! We have sinned, done wrong, acted wickedly, rebelled and turned away from Your Commands and rulings. We have not listened to Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your Name to our presidents, our leaders, our founding fathers and to all the people of the land.
To You, Adonai, belongs righteousness; but to us today belongs shame – to us, the people of the United States of America, it’s Territories and Washington DC, including those nearby and those far away, throughout all the countries where they are; because we broke faith with You. Yes, ADONAI, shame has fallen on us, our presidents, our leaders and our ancestors; because we sinned against You. It is for ADONAI our GOD to show compassion and forgiveness, because we rebelled against You. We didn’t listen to the voice of ADONAI our GOD, so that we could live by Your Laws, which You presented to us through Your servants the prophets. Yes, all of America flouted Your Law and turned away, unwilling to listen to Your voice. Therefore the curse and oath written in the Law of Moses the servant of GOD was poured on us, because we sinned against You. You carried out the threats You spoke against us and our judges who judged us, by bringing upon us disaster so great that under all of Heaven, nothing has been done like what has been done to Washington DC. As written in the Law of Moses, this whole disaster came upon us. Yet we did not appease ADONAI our GOD by renouncing our wrongdoing and discerning Your Truth. So ADONAI watched for the right moment to bring this disaster upon us, for ADONAI our GOD is just in everything He does, yet we didn’t listen when He spoke.
Now, ADONAI our GOD, who brought your people out of Europe with a strong hand, thereby winning renown for Yourself, as is the case today – we sinned, we acted wickedly. ADONAI, in keeping with all Your Justice, please allow Your anger and fury to be turned away from America and Washington DC; because it is due to our sins and the wrongdoings of our ancestors that Washington DC and Your people have become objects of scorn among everyone around us. Therefore, our GOD, listen to the prayers and pleadings of Your servants; and cause Your face to shine on Your desolated Church, for Your own sake. Our GOD, turn Your ear, and hear; open Your eyes and see how desolated we are, as well as Washington DC. Therefore we plead with You not because of our own righteousness, but because of Your Compassion. ADONAI, hear! ADONAI, forgive! ADONAI, pay attention, and don’t delay action – for Your own sake, our GOD, because Your nation and Your people bear Your Name!”
From Daniel 9:7-19
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