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Summary
- Psalm 7:9 prays, “Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just”; short prayers built on it cover protection, justice, lies, hostile coworkers, a wicked leader, fear, bitterness, repentance, vengeance and peace afterward.
- Traditional prayers are quoted from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer (the Litany and the Collect for Peace) and a Leo XIII antiphon to Saint Michael printed in Lasance’s Catholic Girl’s Guide (1906).
- Psalms 35, 58 and 109 pray against enemies, while Jesus commanded, “Love your enemies … pray for them which despitefully use you” (Matthew 5:44); the Litany asks God to forgive enemies and “turn their hearts.”
- The “hedge of protection” comes from Job 1:10 and the “hedge of thorns” from Hosea 2:6, where God blocks unfaithful Israel’s way so she will return.
- Anyone being threatened or abused is directed to emergency services and to US and UK domestic abuse helplines.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- Scripture quotations are from the King James Version (1611), text of Project Gutenberg eBook no. 10 (Job 1:10; Psalm 7:9; 27:1; 31:18; 35:1; 37:1, 10; 58:6; 109:8; 139:24; 140:1; Proverbs 25:5; 26:2; Isaiah 54:17; Ezekiel 33:11; Hosea 2:6; Matthew 5:44; 6:13; Luke 12:2; 23:34; John 14:27; Acts 1:20; Romans 12:14, 19; 1 Timothy 2:2; James 4:7; 1 John 3:8). https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10
- The Book of Common Prayer (Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.A.), Standard Book of 1928. Morning Prayer, “A Collect for Peace,” p. 17; The Litany, pp. 54 and 57. PDF facsimile: https://www.artisticdailyprayers.org/uploads/3/0/1/6/30164961/bcp1928std.pdf
- Hapgood, Isabel Florence, trans. Service Book of the Holy Orthodox-Catholic Apostolic (Greco-Russian) Church. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1906. Great Vespers, the Lord’s Prayer (“deliver us from the Evil One”), p. 13. https://www.ponomar.net/data/hapgood.pdf
- Lasance, F. X. The Catholic Girl’s Guide. New York: Benziger Brothers, 1906. “Antiphon to the Archangel Michael,” p. 601. https://archive.org/details/catholicgirlsgui00lasa
- National Domestic Violence Hotline. https://www.thehotline.org/
- GOV.UK. “Domestic abuse: how to get help.” https://www.gov.uk/guidance/domestic-abuse-how-to-get-help
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