Refrain:You, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. 1I will give thanks to you, Lord, with my whole heart; • I will tell of all your marvellous works. 2I will be glad and rejoice in you; • I will make music to your name, O Most High. 3When my enemies are driven back, • they stumble and perish at your presence. 4For you have maintained my right and my cause; • you sat on your throne giving righteous judgement. R 5You have rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked; • you have blotted out their name for ever and ever. 6The enemy was utterly laid waste. • You uprooted their cities; their very memory has perished. 7But the Lord shall endure for ever; • he has made fast his throne for judgement. 8For he shall rule the world with righteousness • and govern the peoples with equity. 9Then will the Lord be a refuge for the oppressed, • a refuge in the time of trouble. 10And those who know your name will put their trust in you, • for you, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. R 11Sing praises to the Lord who dwells in Zion; • declare among the peoples the things he has done. 12The avenger of blood has remembered them; • he did not forget the cry of the oppressed. 13Have mercy upon me, O Lord; • consider the trouble I suffer from those who hate me, you that lift me up from the gates of death; 14That I may tell all your praises in the gates of the city of Zion • and rejoice in your salvation. 15The nations shall sink into the pit of their making • and in the snare which they set will their own foot be taken. 16The Lord makes himself known by his acts of justice; • the wicked are snared in the works of their own hands. R 17They shall return to the land of darkness, • all the nations that forget God. 18For the needy shall not always be forgotten • and the hope of the poor shall not perish for ever. 19Arise, O Lord, and let not mortals have the upper hand; • let the nations be judged before your face. 20Put them in fear, O Lord, • that the nations may know themselves to be but mortal. Refrain:You, Lord, have never failed those who seek you. Remember, Lord, all who cry to you from death’s dark gates; do not forget those whom the world forgets, but raise your faithful ones to Zion’s gate, with your all-conquering Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. |
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