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A community confesses and asks compassion.
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Psalms 79:8-9

let your compassion quickly come to meet us

they have reduced Jerusalem to ruins · Psalms 79

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8Do not hold against us the iniquities of former times; let your compassion quickly come to meet us, for we have been brought very low.

9Help us, God of our salvation, for the sake of your name’s glory; deliver us and atone for our sins for your name’s sake.

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