1: GOD, you smiled on your good earth! You brought good times back to Jacob!
2: You lifted the cloud of guilt from your people, you put their sins far out of sight.
3: You took back your sin-provoked threats, you cooled your hot, righteous anger.
4: Help us again, God of our help; don't hold a grudge against us forever.
5: You aren't going to keep this up, are you? scowling and angry, year after year?
6: Why not help us make a fresh start--a resurrection life? Then your people will laugh and sing!
7: Show us how much you love us, GOD! Give us the salvation we need!
8: I can't wait to hear what he'll say. GOD's about to pronounce his people well, The holy people he loves so much, so they'll never again live like fools.
9: See how close his salvation is to those who fear him? Our country is home base for Glory!
10: Love and Truth meet in the street, Right Living and Whole Living embrace and kiss!
11: Truth sprouts green from the ground, Right Living pours down from the skies!
12: Oh yes! GOD gives Goodness and Beauty; our land responds with Bounty and Blessing.
13: Right Living strides out before him, and clears a path for his passage.