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Ezekiel 36:23:
"I will show the holiness of my great name..."
In ancient Israelite culture, one's "name" was inextricably intertwined with one's identity.
These two parts of the Lord's prayer - "Our father" and "hallowed be your name" create an important counterbalance with each other. The familiarity of God as "Father" vs. the hallowed name of God.
Is [the Lord] not your Father...?"
- Deuteronomy 32:6
Micah 4:1-8:
"...the former dominion/kingdom will be restored to you..."
God's people often referred to as "sons" (e.g., Exodus 4:22, Hosea 11:1)
(see entire passage for the ancient Jewish understanding of "God's coming reign," Jesus' central/most often mentioned concept)
The "forgiveness of debts" would have been heard as an allusion to "the Sabbath year" as described in Deuteronomy 15.
"How awful that day will be! None will be like it. It will be a time of trouble for [Israel], but they will be saved out of it." _ Jeremiah 30:7
"Wail, for the day of the Lord is near..." Isaiah 13:6ff
Proverbs 30:8
"Give me neither poverty nor riches, but give me only my daily bread."
"The day of the Lord is great and dreadful; who can endure it?" - Joel 2:11
"Deliver me from evildoers and save me from those who are after my blood." - Psalm 59:2
"Deliver me, my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of those who are evil and cruel." - Psalm 71:4
"[The Lord] guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked." - Psalm 97:10