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Topic: Lament & Longing

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In God Alone

Psalm 62

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God is Holding Your Life

Psalm 121

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In God alone is my soul at rest; be at rest, my soul

1. Lift up your eyes, behold the hills / From where will help and rescue come?
We call on One who made the earth / Who blessed the stars, the moon and sun

God is holding your life / We believe

2. Turn down your gaze upon the earth...

3. Venturing out or coming home...

You Are My God

Psalm 63

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You are my God and I am searching for you

In a dry and weary land, my soul is thirsting

Hear My Cry, O God

Psalm 61

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Hear my cry, O God. Listen to my prayer.

From the end of the earth I call to you, though my heart is faint.

Let me abide with you forever.

God, Our Home and Help

Psalm 46

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All of My Life

Psalm 27

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God our home and help / O God, our home and help, we entrust our troubles to you.

1. All of my life, one thing I long for / All of my life, one thing I live for:

To see the Holy One in all of my life

2. In every breath, in every shadow / For my own eyes, one thing I pray for:

3. Teach me your ways, O God our Savior / I give my heart, I give my eyes, Lord

We Wait In Hope For Your Word

Psalm 130

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1. Out of the depths we cry to you / O Holy One hear us
Held to our sin, God, who could stand / We come for forgiveness / O Holy One, hear us

We wait in hope for your word / More than watchmen for the morning
We wait in hope for your word / And the dawn is never failing

2. Always with you, unfailing love / O Holy One, hear us...

Love and Justice

Psalm 101

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1. Two feet walking, love and justice, rugged journey. / Inside, outside, full attention, circle sweeping

Love and justice, Love and justice

2. Two arms open, love and justice, to creation / Forests, mountains, every ocean, every nation

3. Two perspectives, love and justice, come together / Moonrise, sunset, single kingdom, earth and heaven

4. Two hands holding, love and justice, world is learning / Elders smiling, babies nursing, spirit burning.

Our Roots Are in You

Psalm 87

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Our roots are in you / In you we are planted

All streams flow from you and return home.

Under God

Psalm 2

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Rejoice under God, tremble now under God / Take heart under God, be in awe under God

1. Why do the nations rage? Why do the rulers scheme? / Men and women of power, you serve under God.

2. Work for the holy way, justice and mercy. / Men and women of power, be true under God.

3. We pray for wisdom now, we pray for strength and hope. / Men and women of power, take heart under God.

O Tender God, Have Mercy

Psalm 51

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We Lift Our Eyes To You

Psalm 123

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O tender God, have mercy / for you are for us

O Living Christ, have mercy / for you will heal us

O tender God, have mercy / for you are for us

For you are for us

We lift our eyes to you / Help us move on

1. We've had our fill of hatred / We look to you for mercy

2. We've had enough of terror / We look to you for healing

3. We've got a world of sorrow / We look to you for promise

Now to God I Make My Vows

Psalm 116

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Now to God I make my vows / With all the people of God

1. I love God because God has heard my voice, heard my cry
I love God; I will cry on your name for all my life

2. What shall I offer back to God for all his lavish gifts...

3. Precious is the death of faithful ones in God’s eyes...

4. I will bring God a sacrifice of thanks, Jerusalem...

Into Your Hands

Psalm 31

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Into your hands I place my life / Oh, loving, faithful God / Oh, my life is yours

Come Quickly to Help Us

Psalm 70

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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

My God, O My God

Psalm 22

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My God, O my God / Why have You forgotten me?

My God, O my God / How can You be silent now?

i The dogs are closing in / My mouth is dry / Where is God in my despair / So far from my cries

ii Our ancestors put their trust in you / And you delivered them

iii I am poured out like water / My heart is melting

iv I will declare your name / The poor will eat and for once be satisfied

Dumiyah

Psalm 65

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Dumiyah (Heb. silence)

Tibi silens laus (Lat. For you, silence is praise)

In My Heart is the Road

Psalm 84

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In my heart is the road / and I will not be hurried

In my heart is the road / Bless my feet on the journey

to Jerusalem / to Jerusalem

Our Home is the God Who Loves Justice

Psalm 11

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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

Let Me Listen

Psalm 85

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Let me listen / God is speaking / Peace

To You

Psalm 25

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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...

Wait For God

Psalm 27

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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

City of Peace

Psalm 122

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Rivers in the Desert

Psalm 126

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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

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

Restore Us

Psalm 80

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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

Deliver Us

Psalm 58

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1. Disarm the terrorists / Tear out the lion's teeth / Uproot corruption even if it's served us

Shut down the violence / Once again make us free / Against, away from systems that enslave us

Deliver us, deliver us / Bring on the holy upheaval and / Deliver us, deliver us from evil

2. We've been oblivious / We've fed the system beast...

3. There's only one of us / Show us the holy way...

When We Share God's Dream

Psalm 124

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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...

Bring Us Justice

Psalm 26

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Bring us justice / Move us to wholeness / Bring us justice / Move us to completeness

1. Test my heart and test my mind / You've been leading us in faithfulness...

2. Bless these hands and hear me sing / You've been leading us in faithfulness...

3. As for me you lead my life / You've been leading us in faithfulness...

Open Us

Psalm 40

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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.

I Am For Peace

Psalm 120

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I am for peace

Turn and Restore Us

Psalm 80

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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...