Exilium.
A Prayer Against Exile
The petitioner asks for protection from spiritual and physical displacement, seeking instead to remain in a place of faithful service.
Lord, don't send me to the waters of Babylon, so that I won't have to weep when I remember Zion; let no one's cruelty lead me away captive, and let no one's scorn make me sing in my sorrow. But in my homeland, where I learned to serve you, may I live to honor you all the days of my life, even for the sake of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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LOrd, send me not to the waters of Babylon, that I may have no cause to weep when I remember Sion: that no mans cruelty may lead me away captive, nor no mans scorn call upon me to sing in my heaviness. But that in my Country where I learnd to serve thee, I may live to honour thee all the daies of my life, even for Iesus Christ his sake. Amen.
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