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.
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.
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