Nation: National Adversity, Prayer In

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly. …

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people,

…and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

A Maskil of Asaph. Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger smolder against the sheep of Your pasture?

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.”