Jeremiah 42:3
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Pray that the LORD your God will tell us the way we should walk and the thing we should do.”
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Teach me Your way, O LORD, that I may walk in Your truth. Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.
in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.
This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
And there by the Ahava Canal I proclaimed a fast, so that we might humble ourselves before our God and ask Him for a safe journey for us and our children, with all our possessions.
And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your servants, Your people Israel, so that You may teach them the good way in which they should walk. May You send rain on the land that You gave Your people as an inheritance.
For who of all flesh has heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the fire, as we have, and survived?
And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
If only they had such a heart to fear Me and keep all My commandments always, so that it might be well with them and with their children forever.
Teach me Your way, O LORD, and lead me on a level path, because of my oppressors.