You make springs pour water into the ravines,
so streams gush down from the mountains.
You send rain on the mountains
from your heavenly home,
and you fill the earth with the fruit of your labor.
O LORD,
what a variety of things you have made!
In wisdom you have made them all.
The earth is full of your creatures.
(St. Moritz, Switzerland)
You placed the world on its foundation
so it would never be moved.
You clothed the earth with floods of water,
water that covered even the mountains.
At your command,
the water fled;
at the sound of your thunder,
it hurried away.
Mountains rose and valleys sank
to the levels you decreed.
(Gruyeres, Switzerland)
Remember your promise to me;
it is my only hope.
Your promise revives me;
it comforts me in all my troubles.
(Galveston, TX)
The LORD frustrates the plans of the nations
and thwarts all their schemes.
But the LORD’s plans stand firm forever;
his intentions can never be shaken.
What joy for the nation whose God is the LORD,
whose people he has chosen as his inheritance.
For the word of the LORD holds true,
and we can trust everything he does.
He loves whatever is just and good;
the unfailing love of the LORD fills the earth.
The LORD is my strength and shield.
I trust him with all my heart.
He helps me,
and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.
My heart has heard you say,
“Come and talk with me.”
And my heart responds,
“LORD, I am coming.”
…I come to your altar,
O LORD,
singing a song of thanksgiving
and tell of all your wonders.
Now I stand on solid ground,
and I will publicly praise the LORD.
So the LORD must wait for you to come to him
so he can show you his love and compassion.
For the LORD is a faithful God.
Blessed are those who wait for his help.
A single day in your courts
is better than a thousand
anywhere else!
I would rather be a gatekeeper in the
house of my God
than live the good life in the homes
of the wicked.
For the LORD God is our sun and
our shield.
He gives us grace and glory.
The LORD will withhold no good thing
from those who do what is right.
O LORD of Heaven’s Armies,
what joy for those who trust in you.
