A Prayer for God’s People

36Have mercy upon us, O God^* of all,
²   and put all the nations in fear of you.
³Lift up your hand against foreign nations
   and let them see your might.
⁴As you have used us to show your holiness to them,
   so use them to show your glory to us.
⁵Then they will know,^* as we have known,
   that there is no God but you, O Lord.
⁶Give new signs, and work other wonders;
⁷   make your hand and right arm glorious.
⁸Rouse your anger and pour out your wrath;
⁹   destroy the adversary and wipe out the enemy.
¹⁰Hasten the day, and remember the appointed time,^*
   and let people recount your mighty deeds.
¹¹Let survivors be consumed in the fiery wrath,
   and may those who harm your people meet destruction.
¹²Crush the heads of hostile rulers
   who say, ‘There is no one but ourselves.’
¹³Gather all the tribes of Jacob,^*
16   and give them their inheritance, as at the beginning.
¹⁷Have mercy, O Lord, on the people called by your name,
   on Israel, whom you have named^* your firstborn,