Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Our Father and gracious God, You are the God who raises the dead. You speak to dead nothing, and a vibrant, living universe appears. You speak to the inanimate world, and every manner of teeming life appears, from the grass, to the …
The Proud Have Dug Their Pits
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 …
Their Foundry Is Deceit
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 …
Your Earth, Oh Lord, Is Full of Grace
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Great God, You are my portion now, And I will keep Your words. I have entreated all Your grace, With all my heart and all my soul, Be merciful and keep Your Word. I have considered all my ways, And turned my …
It Horrifies My Heart
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Give Your Word back to Your slave On which You made me hope This is my comfort in my fears, Your quickening Word has made me live, Your resurrecting power is here. The proud have loved to laugh at me, And they …
So Raise Your Hands to His Commands
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Forgive me now, oh Lord and God And let your mercies come. Descend from heaven and save me here, According to Your mercy now, According to Your kindly Word. Then I will have an answer for The one who brings rebuke. My …
Turn Back My Eyes From Vanity
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Educate me now, Oh Lord In Your statute law And I will keep it to the end, And I will walk within the way, Until this journey finally ends. Give an understanding heart So that I keep Your law, With all my …
Your Curriculum of Law
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Down to the dust my soul bends down, Quicken me with spoken Word. I have declared Your Word and ways, You heard my supplicating cry, Teach me Your statutes and Your law. Make me to understand Your precepts now, Then I will …
My Soul Is Broken With Desire
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Can this poor man a servant be? Deal bountifully with me, That I may live and keep Your Word, That I might walk and never stray, In all the blessings You poured out. And if You open both my eyes, I will …
And I Delight In Statute Law
Minister: Lift up your hearts! Congregation: We lift them up to the Lord! Before a youth can cleanse his way, What can he try to do? By taking heed to all the Word, By seeking God with all his heart, And from His law not wander off. God’s Word is hidden in my heart, That …