[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 100 (Thursday, June 13, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H3986-H3987]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PRAYER

  The Chaplain, the Reverend Margaret Grun Kibben, offered the 
following prayer:
  Lord, the God of our ancestors, the eternal one who saw our forebears 
through times of global unrest and the devastations of war, are You not 
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the God who is in Heaven? Do You not still rule over all the kingdoms? 
Are You not sovereign over all the nations?
  Power and might are in Your hands, and we call upon Your strength in 
our day. As nations war against nations and peoples have risen up 
against peoples, use Your sway to intervene in the conflicts between 
Israel and Hamas, Ukraine and Russia. Intervene in the disputes where 
we have resorted to violence in our hatred for each other.
  We dare ask that You judge both the righteous and the unrighteous, 
weigh every deed on Your scale, that justice would prevail. Exact 
fitting punishment on the evildoers. And may Your mercy be a source of 
joy to the blameless.
  In You alone do we find hope. Only when You intervene and bring an 
end to our warring madness, as You have done in the past, will we find 
peace.
  O God in Heaven, establish Your rule over all the kingdoms. Reveal 
again Your sovereignty over all nations. Once more let Your justice 
roll like a river and Your righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
  In the power and might, the justice and mercy, the peace and love 
found only in Your name do we pray.
  Amen.

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