A Prayer For Purification

Pray now for the peace of Jerusalem: and prosperity to them that love Thee. Let peace, I pray, be within Thine host, and prosperity in Thy palaces. For the sake of my brethren and my neighbours, I have indeed spoken peace concerning Thee. (Psalm 121:6-8, LXXE)

And now, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, what shall we say, having these things? for we have transgressed Thy commandments, which Thou gavest by the hand of Thy servants the prophets, saying, That the land, which ye enter into to possess as an heritage, is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land, and they have filled it with their uncleanness… And all that is befallen is done unto us for our wicked works and great sins; for Thou, O 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, didst make our sins light, And didst give unto us such a root: but we have turned back again to transgress Thy law, and to mingle ourselves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land. (1 Esdras 8:79-80/83-84, LXXE)

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