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Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the God of gods,for his steadfast love endures forever.Give thanks to the Lord of lords,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who alone does great wonders;for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who by understanding made the heavens,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who spread out the earth above the waters,for his steadfast love endures forever;to him who made the great lights,for his…

Praise the LORD!Praise the name of the LORD,give praise, O servants of the LORD,who stand in the house of the LORD,in the courts of the house of our God!Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good;sing to his name, for it is pleasant!For the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself,Israel as his own possession.For I know that the LORD is great,and that our Lord is above all gods.Whatever the LORD pleases, he does,in heaven and on earth,in the seas and…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,who stand by night in the house of the LORD!Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the LORD!May the LORD bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth! Gracious God and Heavenly Father, We are urged to bless you; to speak well of you and to praise you. We confess we often fail at this. We complain and we are tempted to say…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.Remember, O LORD, in David’s favour, all the hardships he endured,how he swore to the LORD and vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,“I will not enter my house or get into my bed,I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelidsuntil I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob.”Behold, we heard of it in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.“Let us…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!O Lord, hear my voice!Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my pleas for mercy!If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?But with you there is forgiveness, that you may be feared.I wait for the LORD, my soul waits, and in his word I hope;my soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning,more than watchmen for the morning.O Israel,…

A SONG OF ASCENTS.“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth”—let Israel now say—“Greatly have they afflicted me from my youth,yet they have not prevailed against me.The plowers plowed upon my back;they made long their furrows.”The LORD is righteous;he has cut the cords of the wicked.May all who hate Zion be put to shameand turned backward!Let them be like the grass on the housetops,which withers before it grows up,with which the reaper does not fill his handnor the binder of…

A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF SOLOMON.Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labour in vain.Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil;for he gives to his beloved sleep.Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward.Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of…

A SONG OF ASCENTS. OF DAVID.If it had not been the LORD who was on our side— let Israel now say—if it had not been the LORD who was on our sidewhen people rose up against us,then they would have swallowed us up alive,when their anger was kindled against us;then the flood would have swept us away,the torrent would have gone over us;then over us would have gone the raging waters.Blessed be the LORD, who has not given us as…