Look in compassion, O heavenly Father,

    upon this troubled and divided world.

Though we cannot trace your footsteps 

    or understand your working,

    give us grace to trust you with an undoubting faith;

 and when your own time is come,

    reveal, O Lord, that new heaven and new earth

    wherein dwells righteousness,

    where the Prince of Peace rules,

    your Son our Savior Jesus Christ.

 

Charles Vaughan, 1816 – 1897, English scholar and Anglican churchman

 

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For behold, I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.