We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day. Judg 10:15
UD 10:15{The children of Israel were sold for their evil deeds into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites, and vexed and oppressed for eighteen years. ("Vexed and oppressed"—does that describe your case?) They come to the Lord with bare excuse-less confession, "We have sinned," and then they cast themselves on bare undeserved mercy: "Do Thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto Thee." And what then? "His soul was grieved for the misery of Israel." Could anything be more humanly tender, as well as divinely magnanimous! Is it not a lesson to come straight to His heart with any misery of which the sting is that we have brought it on ourselves, and deserved it a thousandfold? First confess the sin, and then leave the sorrows wholly in His hands, and we find Him verily "the same Lord, whose property is always to have mercy." And mercy includes help, for the Lord did not stop short at grieving over their misery; He sent Jephthah to deliver them, so that they "dwelled safe" for about thirty years. (Compare Judg. 11:3333And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel. (Judges 11:33) and 1 Sam. 12:1111And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe. (1 Samuel 12:11).)
"Thou halt forgiven—even until now!”
We bless Thee, Lord, for this.
And take Thy great forgiveness as we bow
In depth of suffering bliss;
While over all the long, regretful past
This veil of wondrous grace Thy sovereign hand doth cast.