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2. I have justified anger and buried my guilt;
Tried to cover my shame with more sin—with more filth.
Now my spiritʼs so thirsty, with hunger it burns.
I have come to my end and to You now I turn.
3. But if there were no Cross; if Christʼs blood was not shed:
In my sins Iʼd remain; though alive Iʼd be dead.
But He died for my sin then to life rose again.
So I come to You now through Your love in His name.
© 2007 Christine Dieckmann. Used by permission.
Martin Bleby
Psalm 130
Out of the depths:
Out of the depths
I have called to You O Lord:
Lord, hear my voice!
Let Your ears consider well
The voice of my supplication.
If You, O Lord;
If You, O Lord,
Should mark what we do amiss,
Lord, who could stand?
But with You there is mercy,
So that You shall be feared.
I wait for the Lord,
My soul waits for Him
And my hope is in His word.
My soul looks for God.
My soul looks for God
More than watchmen for the
morning;
More, I say, than watchmen for the
morning.
O Israel,
Trust in the Lord,
For with the Lord there is mercy
And ample redemption!
He will redeem Israel
From the multitude of their sins.
Out of the depths.
© 2001 Martin Bleby. Used by permission.
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Geoffrey Bingham, 1919–2009
Doxology
1. Praise God from whom all glories flow,
All creatures high and here below.
Praise Him for love and peace and joy,
With all the powers your hearts employ.
Stars praised Him joyfully for earthʼs
Created splendours at its birth.
And angels raptured at the light
Sang gloriously of this new delight.
In Edenʼs bower our parents sang,
And with them all creation rang
In paeans of heartsʼ delighted praise
For all the mysteries of His ways.
2. The bondage came with serpentʼs chains;
Mankind ceased all its sweet refrains;
Yet midst the pain of sin for Man
The powers of grace their work began.
Israel stood free on the sea shore
With Canaanʼs riches all before.
In joy old Moses raised the song
With Miriam and all along.
The angels sang at Jesusʼ birth
Bursting from heavʼn come down to earth.
The people sang ʻHosanna! Lord!ʼ
Evʼn as the priests prepared Death's
wood.
3. The thief that day found Paradise—
Eden returned by bloody price—
All sinners now know Edenʼs peace
And sing their songs that never cease.
The Holy City comes to be
For heavʼn and earth Godʼs sanctuary.
There creatures all their praises raise
For present and eternal days.
Now all together heavʼn and earth,
Sing for the glory of new birth,
For birth thatʼs new to sanctify
All that inhabit earth and sky.
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