Prayer for our Nation: Have mercy O LORD!
O LORD HAVE MERCY Have mercy on me, O LORD, according to Your great mercy. According to Your tender mercies remove my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquities, and cleanse me from my sins. I knowingly confess my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against You only have I sinned and done evil before You; O LORD, please forgive me and make me right before you. But behold, I was formed in iniquity: and in sin did my mother conceive me. LORD, sprinkle me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, make me whiter than snow. Open my ears and make me hear of joy and gladness and my bones that have been humbled shall rejoice. O LORD, create in me a clean heart. O LORD make anew, a righteous spirit within me. O LORD, do not cast me away from Your presence; and take not Your Spirit from me. O LORD, restore unto me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit. Behold, You desire truth in