O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I beseech you, let your anger and your fury be turned away from your city Jerusalem, your holy mountain: because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a reproach to all that are about us.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Against. Hebrew, "according to. "
Justice. Septuagint, "mercy. "Let not the enemy boast that he has ruined thy temple, ver. 17. (Calmet)