Praying—with the Saints—to God Our Mother. Daniel F. Stramara
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you have taught me your decrees.
172. Let my tongue resound
with your promises,
because all of your commandments
are righteous.
173. Let your hand be quick to save me,
for I have chosen your commandments.
174. I have longed for your saving help, O Lord,
and your law is my meditation.
175. My soul shall live and praise you,
and your judgments shall help me.
176. I have gone astray like a lost sheep,
seek your servant, for I haven’t forgotten your commandments.
Psalm 120
1. I lifted my eyes to the mountains,
from whence shall come my help.
2. My help is from the Lord,
the maker of heaven and earth.
3. May your foot not slip,
nor your keeper slumber.
4. Behold, the Keeper of Israel,
shall neither slumber nor sleep.
5. The Lord shall preserve you;
the Lord at your right hand shall be your shelter.
6. The sun shall not scorch you by day,
nor shall the moon harm you by night.
7. The Lord shall guard you
from all evil;
the Lord shall preserve your life.
8. The Lord shall keep watch over your coming and going,
from now and forever more.
Psalm 121
1. I was glad when they said to me:
“Let us go into the house of the Lord.”
2. We have planted our feet
in your courts, O Jerusalem.
3. Jerusalem has been built as a city,
whose compactness is complete.
4. For there the tribes go up,
the tribes of the Lord as a witness
for Israel,
to give thanks to the name of the Lord.
5. For there are set the thrones
for judgment,
thrones for the house of David.
6. Pray, I beseech you, for the peace
of Jerusalem,
and prosperity for those who love you.
7. Let peace, I pray, be within
your stronghold,
and let prosperity dwell in your palaces.
8. For the sake of my relatives
and neighbors,
I have invoked peace upon you.
9. For the sake of the house of the Lord our God,
I have purposely sought your welfare.
Psalm 122
1. I have raised my eyes to you,
who dwells in the heavens.
2. Behold, as the eyes of servants
are fixed on the hands of their masters,
and as the eyes of a maidservant,
are fixed on the hands of her mistress,
even so our eyes are fixed on the Lord our God,
until God display compassion
towards us.
3. Have mercy upon us, O Lord,
have mercy upon us,
for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.
4. Indeed, our life has been
exceedingly filled;
let reproach come upon the prosperous,
and contempt fall upon the haughty.
Psalm 123
1. If the Lord had not been in our midst,
let Israel say;
2. if the Lord had not been in our midst,
when people rose up against us,
3. then would they have swallowed
us up alive,
when their anger blazed out against us,
4. then the waters would have
drowned us,
and our life would have gone under the torrent.
5. Indeed our soul would have sunk,
beneath the overwhelming waters.
6. Blessed be the Lord,
who has not given us as prey
to their teeth!
7. Our life has escaped like a bird
from the fowler’s snare,
the snare was shattered,
and we have escaped.
8. Our help is in the name of the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 124
1. Those who trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion,
whoever dwells in Jerusalem shall never be shaken.
2. The mountains encompass her,
and the Lord encompasses his people,
from now and forever more.
3. For the Lord will not permit,
the rod of sinners,
over the lot of the righteous,
lest the righteous stretch forth
their hands to iniquity.
4. Do good, O Lord,
to those who are good and upright
in heart.
5. But those who swerve into
crooked paths,
the Lord will drive away with the workers of iniquity.
Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 125
1. When the Lord returned the captives of Zion,
we were like those who are comforted.
2. Then our mouth was filled with joy,
and our tongue with exultation;
then would they say among the nations:
“The Lord has done great things
for them.”
3. The Lord has done great things for us,
and we have become overjoyed.