いのる
to pray
An axe laid down at the altar and something asked for that was never in your gift. I know いのる it will not come, and still, world peace, every day: いのる.
願う ねがう is wishing, or asking somebody for something. 祈る is praying, and it goes to a god rather than a person.
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