I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of

the LORD

In the land of the living.

Wait on the LORD: be strong, and let thine heart take

courage;

Yea, wait thou on the LORD.

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Help for the Trusting Heart

Unto thee, O LORD, will I call;

My rock, be not thou deaf unto me:

Lest, if thou be silent unto me,

I become like them that go down into the pit.

Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, When I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.

Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity;

Which speak peace with their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

Give them according to their work,

And according to the wickedness of their doings:

Give them after the operation of their hands;

Render to them their desert.

Because they regard not the works of the LORD,

Nor the operation of his hands,

He shall break them down and not build them up:

BLESSED BE THE LORD, BECAUSE HE HATH HEARD THE

VOICE OF MY SUPPLICATIONS.

The LORD is my strength and my shield;

My heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped:
Therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth;

And with my song will I praise him.

The LORD is their strength,

And he is a strong hold of salvation to his anointed.

Save thy people, and bless thine inheritance:

Feed them also, and bear them up for ever.

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Song of the Thunderstorm

Give unto the LORD, O ye sons of the mighty,
Give unto the LORD glory and strength.

Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name;
Worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness.

The voice of the LORD is upon the waters:
The God of glory thundereth,

Even the LORD upon many waters.

The voice of the LORD is powerful;

The voice of the LORD is full of majesty.
The voice of the LORD breaketh the cedars;

Yea, the LORD breaketh in pieces the cedars of Leba

non.

He maketh them also to skip like a calf;

Lebanon and Sirion like a young wild-ox.

The voice of the LORD cleaveth the flames of fire.
The voice of the LORD shaketh the wilderness;
The LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.

The voice of the LORD maketh the hinds to calve,
And strippeth the forests bare:

And in his temple every thing saith, Glory.

The LORD sat as king at the flood;

Yea, the LORD sitteth as king for ever.

The LORD will give strength unto his people;
The LORD will bless his people with peace.

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Anthem for the Inauguration of Jerusalem

Starting of the Procession

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I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast raised me up,
And hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.

O LORD my God,

I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.

O LORD, thou hast brought up my soul from Sheol:

Thou hast kept me alive, from among them that go down to the pit.

Sing praise unto the LORD, O ye saints of his,

And give thanks to his holy name.

For his anger is but for a moment;
His favour is for a life time:

Weeping may tarry for the night,
But joy cometh in the morning.