MAY THIS CUP PASS FROM NIGERIA

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By Akin Ojumu

O LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.
Before the mountains were brought forth
Or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world
Even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.

Against you, and you alone, we have sinned
Just as our fathers and forefathers before us
We’ve transgressed your laws and disobeyed your commands
All of us have fallen short of your glory

As a people, we are nefarious, villainous, and vicious.
Our words are poison, and our deeds are rotten
When our hearts beat, evil gushes out like a deluge
Wickedness pours out of our soul and corruption runs deep in our veins.

The punishment of our lawlessness has been enormous and ferocious
Sorrow and anguish are our daily realities
Misery and catastrophe are in the very air we breathe
Poverty and hardship hang over our land like dark clouds

There’s danger and peril in our villages, towns, and cities
Terror and horror lie in wait on the roads and highways
Plagues and pestilence buffet our bodies
Chaos and confusion are defining features of our existence

Before you now, O LORD, we come begging
Weighed down by our sins and crushed by our iniquity
We fall down on our faces broken and shattered
Unto you O LORD we plead for forgiveness

We are unworthy of your unfettered kindness
We are unqualified for your unceasing mercy
We do not merit your everlasting goodness
We do not deserve your unreserved compassion

LORD, do not be angry with us forever
Let the rain of your mercy fall down on us
Grant us a respite from our pain and agony
Give us a reprieve from our torment and despair

Hear our cry, O LORD; attend unto our prayer.
From the depth of our soul, we cry out to you
Intervene in the affair of Nigeria
Deliver us from the hand of those who misuse and abuse us
Rescue us from the clutches of those who spitefully use us

Come down O LORD in your wrath
Frustrate the counsel of the defrauder of our commonwealth
Thwart the scheme of the patron of politics of patronage
Derail the plan of the benefactor of violent men
Quash the plot of the cabal of chicanery

Arise O God, break the chain of our oppressors
Left to us, we are weak and powerless
Of our own, we can accomplish nothing
But with you, nothing shall be impossible
You are able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think

In the coming election, let the cup of wicked ruler pass from us
May the plunderer of our heritage not happen to Nigeria
Cause the ray of sunshine to rise from the East
Let the light of your deliverance sanitize our land of this present darkness

This is our prayer, O LORD. And your people join hearts to say, AMEN!

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