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God’s Mercy Remembered

⁷ I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,
   the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
because of all that the Lord has done for us,
   and the great favour to the house of Israel
that he has shown them according to his mercy,
   according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
⁸ For he said, ‘Surely they are my people,
   children who will not deal falsely’;
and he became their saviour
⁹   in all their distress.
It was no messenger^* or angel
   but his presence that saved them;^*
in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
   he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

¹⁰ But they rebelled
   and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
   he himself fought against them.
¹¹ Then they^* remembered the days of old,
   of Moses his servant.^*
Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea
   with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is the one who put within them
   his holy spirit,
¹² who caused his glorious arm
   to march at the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters before them
   to make for himself an everlasting name,
¹³   who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
   they did not stumble.
¹⁴ Like cattle that go down into the valley,
   the spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
Thus you led your people,
   to make for yourself a glorious name.

A Prayer of Penitence

¹⁵ Look down from heaven and see,
   from your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are your zeal and your might?
   The yearning of your heart and your compassion?
   They are withheld from me.
¹⁶ For you are our father,
   though Abraham does not know us
   and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our father;
   our Redeemer from of old is your name.