A Prayer in the Midst of Destruction

O God, God of our salvation, help us with Your tenderness to have this wrath pass away from us. I believe that You are always present with us. I beseech You. Our homelands are already destroyed. For decades, death has been enslaving us as if it were the absolute master! I honestly tell You that, if it were not for my faith in You, I would have told You, in a very loud voice, that everything that pertains to life is missing by us. Help us. We have no other god but You. Magnify Your presence with us in the midst of this destruction. Be with those who have been snatched from among us, and with those who are bleeding from pain, grief, stupor, and fear…, as well as with the heroes who are searching for life, under the rubble, in the spots of death. Do not allow the destruction to extend itself to any other place on earth. Rise up right now. If You do not rise up to defend Your people, then who will? O God to Whom our cry is more forceful in times of wrath, glory be to Your tenderness.