Wednesday, September 4th | Psalm 146

Passage:
Hallelujah!
My soul, praise the Lord.
2 I will praise the Lord all my life;
I will sing to my God as long as I live.

3 Do not trust in nobles,
in a son of man,[a] who cannot save.
4 When his breath[b] leaves him,
he returns to the ground;
on that day his plans die.

5 Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob,
whose hope is in the Lord his God,
6 the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea and everything in them.
He remains faithful forever,
7 executing justice for the exploited
and giving food to the hungry.
The Lord frees prisoners.
8 The Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
The Lord raises up those who are oppressed.[c]
The Lord loves the righteous.
9 The Lord protects resident aliens
and helps the fatherless and the widow,
but he frustrates the ways of the wicked.

10 The Lord reigns forever;
Zion, your God reigns for all generations.
Hallelujah!

Song:
Put Not Your Hope in the Nation (Psalm 146) by Paul Zach and Wendell Kimbrough

Lyrics:
Put not your hope in the nation
Put not your hope in a king
Trust in the only one who opens eyes
And sets the pris’ner free

He is the maker of heaven
He formed the earth and the sea
Our help will come from the Lord our God
Our gracious king of peace

Praise the Lord Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord O my soul
Praise the Lord Praise the Lord
Praise the Lord O my soul
He is the hope of the hungry
He is the Lord of the feast
Our Father’s house always opens wide
To welcome refugees

The fatherless find a Father
The widow rests in His strength
The heart of God is forever home
To all the poor and weak

Prayer:
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen.
-St. Francis of Assisi