Praying—with the Saints—to God Our Mother. Daniel F. Stramara
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Like the dream of someone rising from sleep,
you, O Lord, in your city will spurn their phantom.
21. Therefore, my heart has been filled with joy,
and my stomach—tied in knots—has been relieved.
22. Yet I was despicable and knew it not;
I had become like a brute beast
before you.
23. Nevertheless, I am always with you,
because you held me by my right hand.
24. You have guided me by your counsel,
and taken me to yourself in glory.
25. For what is there in heaven for me besides you?
And what have I desired on earth other than you?
26. Have my heart and my flesh failed?
God is the life of my heart.
God is my portion forever.
27. For behold, those who remove themselves from you,
shall utterly perish.
You have destroyed everyone
who leaves you
to play the whore.
28. Thus it is good for me
to cleave to God,
to place my trust in the Lord,
that I may proclaim all your praises,
in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
Psalm 76
13. O God, your path is in holiness.
What god is as great as our God?
14. You are the God who works wonders,
you have made known among the peoples your power.
15. You redeemed with your arm your people,
the children of Jacob and Joseph.
16. The waters saw you, O God,
the waters saw you and trembled,
and the abyss was deeply troubled.
17. Great was the roaring of waters,
the clouds uttered a sound,
for your bolts were passing
through them.
18. The sound of your thunder rumbled round,
and your lightening illumined
the world;
the earth trembled and quaked.
19. Your way was through the sea,
and your paths through many waters,
but your footsteps could not be known.
20. You guided your people as sheep,
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 79
1. Attend, O Shepherd of Israel,
who leads Joseph like a flock.
You who sit upon the cherubim,
manifest yourself.
2. Before Ephraim, Benjamin
and Manasseh,
stir up your power
and come to our salvation.
3. Turn us around, O God,
let your face shine,
and we shall be saved.
4. O Lord, the God of hosts,
how long will you be angry
with the prayer of your servant?
5. How long will you feed us
with the bread of tears,
and cause us to drink tears by measure?
6. You have made us a laughing stock
to our neighbors;
and our enemies have mocked us
round about.
7. Turn us around, O God,
let your face shine,
and we shall be saved.
8. You have transplanted a vine out
of Egypt;
your have uprooted the heathen and planted it.
9. You prepared a way before it,
and caused it to take root,
and the land was filled.
10. Its leafy shade covered
the mountain,
and its tendrils, the cedars of God.
11. It sent forth its branches to the sea,
and its spreading boughs to the river.
12. Then why have you broken down
its hedge,
that all who pass by the roadside may pluck it?
13. The boar from the forest
has laid it waste;
and the wild beast has devoured it.
14. O God of Hosts, return
we beseech you;
look down from heaven and see and visit this vine.
15. Restore that which your right hand has planted,
and look on the Son of Man whom you strengthened for yourself.
16. It is burnt up and uprooted,
at the rebuke of your countenance they will perish.
17. Let your hand be upon your right hand man,
on the Son of Man whom you made strong for yourself.
18. Thus will we not depart from you;
you shall give us life,
and we will call upon your name.
19. O Lord, God of hosts,
turn us around.
Let your face shine
and we shall be saved.
Psalm 80
1. Exult with joy in God our helper!
Shout aloud to the God of Jacob!
2. Take up a psalm and produce
the timbrel,
the sweet sounding psaltery with a harp.
3. Blare the trumpet at the new moon,
in the glorious day of our feast.
4. For it is an ordinance for Israel,
and a statute written by the God
of Jacob,
5. who established it as a testimony
in Joseph,
when he came forth from the land
of Egypt;
he heard a language which