Year A: Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time

[Chorus]
Dm Gm/Bb Gm Am7 Dm
Lord, in Your great love, answer me.

[Verse 1]
Dm Gm/D
For your sake I bear insult,
Dm A
And shame covers my face.
Dm Gm/D
I have become an outcast to my brothers,
Dm A
A stranger to my mother’s children,
Dm Gm/D
Because zeal for your house consumes me,
Dm A
And the insults of those who blaspheme you fall upon me.

[Verse 2]
Dm Gm/D
I pray to you, O Lord,
Dm A
For the time of Your favor, O God!
Dm Gm/D
In Your great kindness answer me
Dm A
With Your constant help.
Dm Gm/D
Answer me, O Lord, for bounteous is your kindness;
Dm A
In your great mercy turn toward me.

[Verse 3]
Bb F/A
“See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
C F
You who seek God, may your hearts revive!
Bb F/A
For the Lord hears the poor,
C F
And His own who are in bonds He spurns not.
Bb F/A
Let the heavens and the earth praise Him,
C F
The seas and whatever moves in them!”