Mankind strays from God
and returns by His grace
26 As a thief is shamed when caught,
so the house of Israel shall be shamed—
they, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father’,
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their backs to me,
and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
‘Come and save us!’
so the house of Israel shall be shamed—
they, their kings, their officials,
their priests, and their prophets,
27 who say to a tree, ‘You are my father’,
and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’
For they have turned their backs to me,
and not their faces.
But in the time of their trouble they say,
‘Come and save us!’
(vs 26-27)
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Hear,
merciful Creator, our prayers with weeping
In
this holy fasting, forty days lasting.
Holy
searcher of man’s thought, thou knowest our frailty
To
them who are turned towards thee, grant forgiveness.
Much,
truly, we have sinned; forgive them that acknowledge it.
For
the honour of thine own name, be physician to sinful man.
Grant
us so to mortify the body outwardly with fasting
That
our souls inwardly may fast from sinning.
Grant
us, Holy Trinity, who in Godhead art one,
That
the gift of Lent’s fast may be beneficial to man. Amen.
A translation from the Middle English of the Lent
hymn 'Audi, benigne Conditor*’
Joshua Peckett
*Ed.
Attributed to Pope St. Gregory the Great (540-604)
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