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 deride my name.
But I have not apostatized,
I have not drifted from Your law.
And I remember ancient laws.
The laws of old I have recalled,
And they still comfort me.
And when the wicked walk away
From all the holiness they contain
It horrifies and takes my heart.
Your words have always been my songs
Along my pilgrimage,
Within my house I sing Your praise,
And I recall Your name, oh Lord,
All through the night I keep Your law.
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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