Let the groans of the prisoners come before you; according to your great power, preserve those doomed to die!
to hear the groans of the prisoners, to set free those who were doomed to die,
who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free;
to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble.
For the Lord hears the needy and does not despise his own people who are prisoners.
“Because the poor are plundered, because the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the Lord; “I will place him in the safety for which he longs.”
During those many days the king of Egypt died, and the people of Israel groaned because of their slavery and cried out for help. Their cry for rescue from slavery came up to God. And God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us,
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
And now, please let the power of the Lord be great as you have promised, saying, ‘The Lord is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’ Please pardon the iniquity of this people, according to the greatness of your steadfast love, just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt until now.”
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