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2God sticks his head out of heaven.He looks around.He’s looking for someone not stupid—one man, even, God-expectant,just one God-ready woman.

5,6Night is coming for them, and nightmares,for God takes the side of victims.Do you think you can messwith the dreams of the poor?You can’t, for Godmakes their dreams come true.

7Is there anyone around to save Israel?Yes. God is around; God turns life around.Turned-around Jacob skips rope,turned-around Israel sings laughter.

1,2God, for your sake, help me!Use your influence to clear me.Listen, God—I’m desperate.Don’t be too busy to hear me.

4,5Oh, look! God’s right here helping!God’s on my side,Evil is looping back on my enemies.Don’t let up! Finish them off!

6,7I’m ready now to worship, so ready.I thank you, God—you’re so good.You got me out of every scrape,and I saw my enemies get it.

1,2Help, God—I’ve hit rock bottom!Master, hear my cry for help!Listen hard! Open your ears!Listen to my cries for mercy.

5,6I pray to God—my life a prayer—and wait for what he’ll say and do.My life’s on the line before God, my Lord,waiting and watching till morning,waiting and watching till morning.

7,8O Israel, wait and watch for God—with God’s arrival comes love,with God’s arrival comes generous redemption.No doubt about it—he’ll redeem Israel,buy back Israel from captivity to sin.

6Oh, blessed be God!He didn’t go off and leave us.He didn’t abandon us defenseless,helpless as a rabbit in a pack of snarling dogs.

7We’ve flown free from their fangs,free of their traps, free as a bird.Their grip is broken;we’re free as a bird in flight.

8God’s strong name is our help,the same God who made heaven and earth.

1,2O my soul, bless God.From head to toe, I’ll bless his holy name!O my soul, bless God,don’t forget a single blessing!

3-5He forgives your sins—every one.He heals your diseases—every one.He redeems you from hell—saves your life!He crowns you with love and mercy—a paradise crown.He wraps you in goodness—beauty eternal.He renews your youth—you’re always young in his presence.

6-18God makes everything come out right;he puts victims back on their feet.He showed Moses how he went about his work,opened up his plans to all Israel.God is sheer mercy and grace;not easily angered, he’s rich in love.He doesn’t endlessly nag and scold,nor hold grudges forever.He doesn’t treat us as our sins deserve,nor pay us back in full for our wrongs.As high as heaven is over the earth,so strong is his love to those who fear him.And as far as sunrise is from sunset,he has separated us from our sins.As parents feel for their children,God feels for those who fear him.He knows us inside and out,keeps in mind that we’re made of mud.Men and women don’t live very long;like wildflowers they spring up and blossom,But a storm snuffs them out just as quickly,leaving nothing to show they were here.God’s love, though, is ever and always,eternally present to all who fear him,Making everything right for them and their childrenas they follow his Covenant waysand remember to do whatever he said.

1,2Not for our sake, God, no, not for our sake,but for your name’s sake, show your glory.Do it on account of your merciful love,do it on account of your faithful ways.Do it so none of the nations can say,"Where now, oh where is their God?"

9-11But you, Israel: put your trust in God!—trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!Clan of Aaron, trust in God!—trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!You who fear God, trust in God!—trust your Helper! trust your Ruler!

12-16O God, remember us and bless us,bless the families of Israel and Aaron.And let God bless all who fear God—bless the small, bless the great.Oh, let God enlarge your families—giving growth to you, growth to your children.May you be blessed by God,by God, who made heaven and earth.The heaven of heavens is for God,but he put us in charge of the earth.

1Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be—you get a fresh start,your slate’s wiped clean.

7God’s my island hideaway,keeps danger far from the shore,throws garlands of hosannas around my neck.

11Celebrate God.Sing together—everyone!All you honest hearts, raise the roof!

2I’ve kept my feet on the ground,I’ve cultivated a quiet heart.Like a baby content in its mother’s arms,my soul is a baby content.

3Wait, Israel, for God. Wait with hope.Hope now; hope always!

1-3The God of gods—it’s God!—speaks out, shouts, "Earth!"welcomes the sun in the east,farewells the disappearing sun in the west.From the dazzle of Zion,God blazes into view.Our God makes his entrance,he’s not shy in his coming.Starbursts of fireworks precede him.

4,5He summons heaven and earth as a jury,he’s taking his people to court:"Round up my saints who sworeon the Bible their loyalty to me."

22,23"Time’s up for playing fast andloose with me.I’m ready to pass sentence,and there’s no help in sight!It’s the praising life that honors me.As soon as you set your foot on the Way,I’ll show you my salvation."

1,2Praise God, everybody!Applaud God, all people!His love has taken over our lives;God’s faithful ways are eternal.Hallelujah!

3I sing to God, the Praise-Lofty,and find myself safe and saved.

28,29Suddenly, God, you floodlight my life;I’m blazing with glory, God’s glory!I smash the bands of marauders,I vault the highest fences.

31-42… You protect me with salvation-armor; …

46-48Live, God! Blessings from my Rock,my free and freeing God, towering!This God set things right for meand shut up the people who talked back.He rescued me from enemy anger,he pulled me from the grip of upstarts,He saved me from the bullies.

9If my enemies run away,turn tail when I yell at them,Then I’ll knowthat God is on my side.

10,11I’m proud to praise God,proud to praise God.Fearless now, I trust in God;what can mere mortals do to me?

12,13God, you did everything you promised,and I’m thanking you with all my heart.You pulled me from the brink of death,my feet from the cliff-edge of doom.Now I stroll at leisure with Godin the sunlit fields of life.

1-13You who sit down in the High God’s presence,spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow,Say this: "God, you’re my refuge.I trust in you and I’m safe!"That’s right—he rescues you from hidden traps,shields you from deadly hazards.His huge outstretched arms protect you—under them you’re perfectly safe;his arms fend off all harm.Fear nothing—not wild wolves in the night,not flying arrows in the day,Not disease that prowls through the darkness,not disaster that erupts at high noon.Even though others succumb all around,drop like flies right and left,no harm will even graze you.You’ll stand untouched, watch it all from a distance,watch the wicked turn into corpses.Yes, because God’s your refuge,the High God your very own home,Evil can’t get close to you,harm can’t get through the door.He ordered his angelsto guard you wherever you go.If you stumble, they’ll catch you;their job is to keep you from falling.You’ll walk unharmed among lions and snakes,and kick young lions and serpents from the path.

14-16"If you’ll hold on to me for dear life," says God,"I’ll get you out of any trouble.I’ll give you the best of careif you’ll only get to know and trust me.Call me and I’ll answer, be at your side in bad times;I’ll rescue you, then throw you a party.I’ll give you a long life,give you a long drink of salvation!"

1,2Listen to this prayer of mine, God;pay attention to what I’m asking.Answer me—you’re famous for your answers!Do what’s right for me.But don’t, please don’t, haul me into court;not a person alive would be acquitted there.

7-10Hurry with your answer, God!I’m nearly at the end of my rope.Don’t turn away; don’t ignore me!That would be certain death.If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice,I’ll go to sleep each night trusting in you.Point out the road I must travel;I’m all ears, all eyes before you.Save me from my enemies, God—you’re my only hope!Teach me how to live to please you,because you’re my God.Lead me by your blessed Spiritinto cleared and level pastureland.

11,12Keep up your reputation, God—give me life!In your justice, get me out of this trouble!In your great love, vanquish my enemies;make a clean sweep of those who harass me.And why? Because I’m your servant.

1,2Keep me safe, O God,I’ve run for dear life to you.I say to God, "Be my Lord!"Without you, nothing makes sense.

3And these God-chosen lives all around—what splendid friends they make!

11Now you’ve got my feet on the life path,all radiant from the shining of your face.Ever since you took my hand,I’m on the right way.

1,2God! God! I am running to you for dear life;the chase is wild.If they catch me, I’m finished:ripped to shreds by foes fierce as lions,dragged into the forest and leftunlooked for, unremembered.

6-8Stand up, God; pit your holy furyagainst my furious enemies.Wake up, God. My accusers have packedthe courtroom; it’s judgment time.Take your place on the bench, reach for your gavel,throw out the false charges against me.I’m ready, confident in your verdict:"Innocent."

17I’m thanking God, who makes things right.I’m singing the fame of heaven-high God.

5,6Father of orphans,champion of widows,is God in his holy house.God makes homes for the homeless,leads prisoners to freedom,but leaves rebels to rot in hell.

19-23Blessed be the Lord—day after day he carries us along.He’s our Savior, our God, oh yes!He’s God-for-us, he’s God-who-saves-us.Lord God knows alldeath’s ins and outs.What’s more, he made heads roll,split the skulls of the enemyAs he marched out of heaven,saying, "I tied up the Dragon in knots,put a muzzle on the Deep Blue Sea."You can wade through your enemies’ blood,and your dogs taste of your enemies from your boots.

35A terrible beauty, O God,streams from your sanctuary.It’s Israel’s strong God! He givespower and might to his people!O you, his people—bless God!

5,6I stretch myself out. I sleep.Then I’m up again—rested, tall and steady,Fearless before the enemy mobsComing at me from all sides.

7Up, God! My God, help me!Slap their faces,First this cheek, then the other,Your fist hard in their teeth!

8Real help comes from God.Your blessing clothes your people!

3-5You made your people look doom in the face,then gave us cheap wine to drown our troubles.Then you planted a flag to rally your people,an unfurled flag to look to for courage.Now do something quickly, answer right now,so the one you love best is saved.

9,10Who will take me to the thick of the fight?Who’ll show me the road to Edom?You aren’t giving up on us, are you, God?refusing to go out with our troops?

11,12Give us help for the hard task;human help is worthless.In God we’ll do our very best;he’ll flatten the opposition for good.