“Since the days of your fathers, you have turned from My statutes; you have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of Hosts.

But you ask: “How can we return?”

Deliver

Rise up, Lord!
Confront him; bring him down.
With Your sword, save me from the wicked.

Deliver my life from the sword,
my only life from the power of these dogs.

For Your faithful love for me is great,
and You deliver my life from the depths of Sheol.

Then I called on the name of Yahweh:
“Yahweh, save me!”

“Lord, deliver me from lying lips
and a deceitful tongue.”

The Lord will protect you from all harm;
He will protect your life.

Indeed, it was for my own welfare
that I had such great bitterness;
but Your love has delivered me
from the Pit of destruction,
for You have thrown all my sins behind Your back.

For

Do not remember the sins of my youth
or my acts of rebellion;
in keeping with Your faithful love, remember me
because of Your goodness, Lord.

But as for me, Lord,
my prayer to You is for a time of favor.
In Your abundant, faithful love, God,
answer me with Your sure salvation.

Do not hold past sins against us;
let Your compassion come to us quickly,
for we have become weak.

Listen, my God, and hear. Open Your eyes and see our desolations and the city called by Your name. For we are not presenting our petitions before You based on our righteous acts, but based on Your abundant compassion.

to the praise of His glorious grace that He favored us with in the Beloved.

so that in the coming ages He might display the immeasurable riches of His grace through His kindness to us in Christ Jesus.

General references

I said: I will never see the Lord,
the Lord in the land of the living;
I will not look on humanity any longer
with the inhabitants of what is passing away.