[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 62 (Wednesday, May 18, 1994)]
[Senate]
[Page S]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                 prayer

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Richard C. Halverson, D.D., offered the 
following prayer:
  Let us pray:
  Judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for 
truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.--Isaiah 59:14.
  God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, not only leadership but all of us 
need to comprehend the wisdom of the prophet Isaiah, that justice, 
equity, and judgment are inextricably connected with truth and 
righteousness. No truth--no justice or righteousness, no judgment or 
equity.
  The prophet Isaiah wrote, ``The way of peace they know not; and there 
is no judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: 
whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace. Therefore is judgment far 
from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but 
behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.''--Isaiah 
59:8, 9.
  Patient Lord, we are a confused people. We seem blind and deaf to 
reality. But Isaiah reminds us, ``Behold, the Lord's hand is not 
shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot 
hear * * *''--Isaiah 59:1.
  Mighty God, Father of us all, lead us to the light.
  In His name who is the light of the world. Amen.

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