Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
I have been dealt with graciously,
According to Your Word.
Teach me Your judgments, all are good,
Give me your knowledge freely now,
For I have faith in all Your law.
Before affliction, and the chastening rod,
I wandered off alone,
But now, brought back, I keep Your Word,
For You are good, and do all good,
Teach me Your holy statutes now.
The proud have forged metallic lies,
Their foundry is deceit.
But I will keep Your precepts close.
Their hearts are fat like cooking grease,
But I delight in all Your laws.
For all my suffering have been good,
That I might learn Your law.
Your spoken law is better now
Than treasure heaped a thousand-fold,
Than gold or silver piled up.
And so, gracious Father, we worship You now through Jesus Christ, who lives and reigns with You and the Holy Spirit, one God, world without end, amen
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