A Call to Repentance and Corporate Confession

Lamentations 3:40-47

Let us examine and test our ways and return to ADONAI.

Let us lift up our hearts and our hands to God in heaven and say,

"We, for our part, have transgressed and rebelled; you, for your part, have not forgiven.

"You have covered us with anger, pursued and slaughtered us without pity.

You have covered yourself with a cloud so thick that no prayer can pass through.

You have reduced us to rubbish and filth among the peoples.

"All our adversaries open their mouths to jeer at us.

Panic and pitfall have come upon us, desolation and destruction.