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To You
Psalm 25
To you I lift up my soul / To you I open my life / I give my trust / I give my hope to you
1. Teach me the way of holiness / my eyes are ever on you...
2. Your perfect love as old as time...
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Wait For God
Psalm 27
1. Wait for God / Be strong and let your heart take courage
Wait for God / Be strong and let your heart take courage / Wait for God
2. Watch and hope
3. Stay with me
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Turn and Restore Us
Psalm 80
In God Alone
Psalm 62
In God alone is my soul at rest; be at rest, my soul
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Turn and restore us / God of darkness, God of light
Turn and restore us / Won’t you shine and give us life
1. You are the shepherd who feeds us / Come back and feed us now...
2. We are the garden you planted / Come back and tend us now...
3. You are the God of all power / Come back and save us now...
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I Am a Mother
Psalm 131
I am a mother with a sleeping child / I am a mother with a sleeping child
And I love this child / How I love this child
And there is hope for everything in this world
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City of Peace
Psalm 122
City of peace
City of peace, where your saints are gathering
City of peace, where your pilgrims journey
May the one who built you also hold you now
Oh, Jerusalem
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The God of Jacob Hallelujah
Psalm 146
Hallelujah!
1. The God of Jacob is our help; our hope is only in our God
Maker of the heaven and earth, the seas and all that is in them
2. The God of Jacob is the one who keeps our faith forever...
3. The God that sets the prisoners free, restoring sight to the blind...
4. Our God will live forever watching over the stranger...
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When We Share God's Dream
Psalm 124
1. When we share God’s dream / We know there will be laughing, there will be singing
When we share God’s dream / We know there will be justice, there will be kindness
2. When we share God’s dream / We know our hearts are beating with all creation...
3. When we share God’s dream / We see God’s kingdom coming now in our longing...
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Restore Us
Psalm 80
Restore us / Let your face shine / Restore us / Give us your life
1. God, be with us here We need you now / Our hearts are always turning back to you
2. God, you've always been our saving love / Our hearts are always coming home to you
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Our Roots Are in You
Psalm 87
Our roots are in you / In you we are planted
All streams flow from you and return home.
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Dumiyah
Psalm 65
Dumiyah (Heb. silence)
Tibi silens laus (Lat. For you, silence is praise)
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Come Quickly to Help Us
Psalm 70
Come quickly to help us; we look to you / Have mercy upon us
Come quickly to help us, Faithful and True / We trust in your love
O Holy One, hear our prayer / Receive our prayer / Amen
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Let Me Listen
Psalm 85
Let me listen / God is speaking / Peace
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God, Our Home and Help
Psalm 46
Be a Blessing
Psalm 72
Open Us
Psalm 40
God our home and help / O God, our home and help, we entrust our troubles to you.
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Be a blessing like rain showers the earth
1. With fierce compassion, defend the poor / Hear the cries of the troubled...
2. With lovingkindness, notice the hurt / See those caught in the system...
3. We stand together to send you out and we pray for your courage...
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You ask no sacrifice / you want no offering / Open us, open us.
We have the ears you made / and we are listening / Open us, open us.
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Our Home is the God Who Loves Justice
Psalm 11
1. Like sparrows in their nest / our home is the God who loves justice
2. The flood has overwhelmed / Our home is the God who loves justice
3. Come know the suffering one / Our home is the God who loves justice
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God Who Remembers
Psalm 136
Let us give thanks to God who remembers.
All of history held in covenant, every story / All things remembered can be healed.
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Rivers in the Desert
Psalm 126
Rivers in the desert, laughter out of weeping / Our hope is grounded only in God
Hidden in the suffering, hidden in the singing / Our dawn is breaking only in God
Blessed are you when you are poor / Blessed are you when you are hungry / You will have God
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