Minister: Lift up your hearts!
Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord!
Keep me from fainting now, oh Lord,
Through hope in Your pure word.
My eyes are failing for Your law.
When will You come and comfort me,
When will You answer all my cries?
A dried out wineskin in the smoke
Is what I have become.
But I do not forget Your law
Despite long days without Your grace,
When will Your Word come strike them down?
The proud have dug their fearsome pits,
Which violate Your law.
All Your commands are faithful, right,
They persecute me evilly.
When will You rise to help?
They almost had their way with me,
That I might be consumed.
But I did not forsake Your laws,
So bring me life in tenderness,
Your spoken word I always keep.
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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