Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, Virgin and Doctor

15And you will say, ‘To the Lord our God is justice, but to us is confusion of our face, just as it is this day for all of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, 16even for our kings, and our leaders, and our priests, and our prophets, and our fathers. 17We have sinned before the Lord our God and we have not believed, lacking confidence in him. 18And we have not been submissive to him, and we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, so as to walk in his commandments, which he has given to us. 19From the day that he led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, we were unfaithful to the Lord our God, and, having been scattered, we fell away. We did not listen to his voice. 20And we joined ourselves to many evils and to the curses which the Lord established through Moses, his servant, who led our fathers out of the land of Egypt, to give us a land flowing with milk and honey, just as it is in the present day. 21And we have not listened to the voice of the Lord our God, according to all the words of the prophets whom he sent to us. 22And we have gone astray, each one after the inclinations of his own malignant heart, serving strange gods and doing evil before the eyes of the Lord our God.

1A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the Gentiles have entered into your inheritance; they have polluted your holy temple. They have set Jerusalem as a place to tend fruit trees.

2They have placed the dead bodies of your servants as food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints for the beasts of the earth.

3They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one who would bury them.

4We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and mockery to those who are around us.

5How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?

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8Do not remember our iniquities of the past. May your mercies quickly intercept us, for we have become exceedingly poor.

9Help us, O God, our Savior. And free us, Lord, for the glory of your name. And forgive us our sins for the sake of your name.

13Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that have been wrought in you, had been wrought in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in haircloth and ashes. 14Yet truly, Tyre and Sidon will be forgiven more in the judgment than you will be. 15And as for you, Capernaum, who would be exalted even up to Heaven: you shall be submerged into Hell. 16Whoever hears you, hears me. And whoever despises you, despises me. And whoever despises me, despises him who sent me.”