“And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have sinned, we have done wickedly.”
"And now, O Lord our God, who brought your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made yourself a name, even to this day—we have sinned, we have been wicked"—shifting from confession to petition by invoking God's redemptive history with Israel and his demonstrated power, appealing to his revealed character as deliverer. The reference to the Exodus establishes the precedent for God to restore the exiled people as he restored them from Egypt. This historical appeal grounds petitionary theology in documented divine action.
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