Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Oh God, my Lord and God, I seek You early in the morning. My soul thirsts for You, My body longs for You In a dry and thirsty land, Where there is no water. I long to see Your power and glory, …
The Wicked Limber Up Their Bow
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! In the Lord I trust, How can you talk to my soul like that? How can you taunt, saying, “Fly like a bird To your mountain home?” The wicked limber up their bow, They set the arrow on the string, To shoot …
And God Will Send His Blessings Down
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Everyone who fears the Lord is blessed, All who walk in the ways assigned. Your meals will be the work of your hands, Happiness weighs your table down, And it will all be well with all your house. Your wife will be …
Some Trust in Missiles, Some in Fleets
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! In times of trouble, May God listen to you! May the name of Jacob’s God defend you. May He send out help from His sanctuary, And strengthen you from Zion’s hill. May He remember your offerings; May He accept your ascension gifts. …
Why Don’t You Hear?
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! How long are You going to forget me? You are eternal; Is Your forgetfulness the same? How long do You intend to hide Your face? How long will I have to counsel myself? Communing with nothing but my own sorrow? How long …
Slept Straight Through Their Thundering Guns
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Too many, Lord, now trouble me, Those who rise against me Multiply. They whisper threats against my soul; There is no help for him in God. I think on my troubles. But You, O Lord, have shielded me; You are my glory, …
Flourishing Green
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Oh, bless the man who does not walk, Where ungodly men give their wisdom. Bless the man who will not stand Where sinners stand, Where the scornful sit. His true delight is in the law, His meditation in the Lord, Day and …
Amen, and Amen
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Our Lord and God, we praise and magnify You. We bless Your name above every name, and exult in the fact that You are a God above all gods. You promised the world to our father Abraham, and You promised that You …
Like a Rock
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Lord, who can live with You? Who can dwell within Your tent? Who can live upon Your holy hill? The one who walks straight up, The one who does the just and right, The one speaks the truth within. He does not …
With Boisterous Psalms
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! O come, let sing before the Lord; Let us offer raucous praise To the Rock of our salvation. Let us come into His presence with thanks, And sing boisterous psalms to Him. For He is a great God, And greater in majesty …