Refrain:
All Blessed are those who believe,
for what God has promised will be fulfilled.
1 My heart exults in the Lord; ♦
my strength is exalted in my God.
2 My mouth derides my enemies, ♦
because I rejoice in your salvation.
3 There is no Holy One like you, O Lord, ♦
nor any Rock like you, our God.
4 For you are a God of knowledge ♦
and by you our actions are weighed.
5 The bows of the mighty are broken, ♦
but the feeble gird on strength.
6 Those who were full now hire themselves out for bread, ♦
but those who were hungry are well fed.
7 The barren woman has borne sevenfold, ♦
but she who has many children is forlorn.
8 Both the poor and the rich are of your making; ♦
you bring low and you also exalt.
9 You raise up the poor from the dust, ♦
and lift the needy from the ash heap.
10 You make them sit with the rulers ♦
and inherit a place of honour.
11 For the pillars of the earth are yours ♦
and on them you have set the world.
1 Samuel 2.1,2,3b-5,7,8
All Glory to the Father and to the Son
and to the Holy Spirit;
as it was in the beginning is now
and shall be for ever. Amen.
All Blessed are those who believe,
for what God has promised will be fulfilled.
Common Worship: Daily Prayer, material from which is included here,
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