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All in Good Faith
AND THEY SHALL BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOUGHSHARES.
AND THEIR SPEARS INTO PRUNING HOOKS; NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANY MORE; BUT THEY SHALL SIT EVERY ONE UNDER THE VINE AND UNDER THE TREE
AND NONE SHALL MAKE THEM AFRAID
PRAYER FOR PEACE
May it be pleasing before Thee, Lord our God and God of our Mothers and Fathers.
To abolish wars and shedding of blood from the world.
And to extend a great and wondrous peace through the world.
No more shall nation lift up sword unto nation, and no more shall they learn war. Only let all the dwellers on earth recognise and know the very truth:
That we have not come to this world for the sake of strife and division (God forbid) Nor for the sake of hatred and envy, provocation and shedding of blood (God forbid) Only we have come to the world in order to recognise and know Thee.
Be thou Blessed Forever .....
May the Scripture be fulfilled, as it is written:
And I will give peace in the land
And you shall lie down with none to make you tremble
And I will cause evil beasts to cease from the land And the sword shall not pass through your land.
- Micah 4:3-4
- Rabbi Nathan of Braslav: Likkutei Tefilot, 2, 53.
OH GOD,
YOU ARE PEACE
FROM YOU COMES PEACE TO YOU RETURNS PEACE
REVIVE US WITH A SALUTATION OF PEACE
AND LEAD US TO YOUR ABODE OF PEACE. Muslim daily prayer
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