Our Joy And Delight

In the late 90s I worked out a first edition of this song on piano, just the first verse (first person singular) and refrain, reverberating for long years in the lost echoes of mid-life mysteries. There it languished until picked up one day by a retired gnome of questionable pedigree who thought perhaps he could once again woo his guitar of thirty years acquaintance, and awaken their sleeping quiet romance of whim and fancy. To his astonishment twenty years later a second verse (first person plural) easily slipped in with augmentation and an entire new chord. 
Excitement toward sharing this offering built and a recording ability assembled, but this lowly gnome struggled against his own lack of confidence, lack of vision and predisposition to baptize all creative work in the suds of craft brews, some noble, some not. 
Finally at a recent reading, a previously unobserved verse (42:8) leapt into view and provided a coda of lofty expression that demanded a hearing.
So now results this recorded attempt, faulty and fractured as it may be. Following are the lyrics that would have been less obscured from a less obfuscated being. Below them is a link to the recording.
In the Hebrew Bible these two Psalms from the Sons of Kohan (priests) are one. We move from the struggle of faith in the old covenant to its victory in the new... from the struggle of faith in the new covenant to its victory forever - the praise of the Almighty God, Creator and Savior.
All these lyrics are taken directly, or adapted, from scripture. Much prayer went in this work.

OUR JOY AND DELIGHT

(from Psalms 42 & 43)

Why are you weighed down,

Oh my soul?

Let His light within,

Turn away from sin,

Cast your cares on Him,

My Savior and my God.

Send forth Your light and Your truth,

Let them lead me.

Send forth Your light and Your truth,

Bring me to Your holy mountain

To the place where You dwell.

Oh God, I come to Your altar, to You,

My joy and delight.

Oh Lord my God, I come to You singing Your praise,

My joy and delight.

All of us like sheep,

Have gone astray.

Lift us from the dark

Come restore our hearts,

Help us follow Your voice,

Our Shepherd and our Guide.

Send forth Your light and Your truth,

Let them lead us.

Send forth Your light and Your truth,

Bring us to Your living water

To the throne of our King.

Oh God, we come to Your altar, to You,

Our joy and delight,

Oh Lord our God, we come to You singing Your praise,

Our joy and delight.

The Lord will send

His faithful love by day

His song will be with us in the night

The Lord will send

His faithful love by day and night

A prayer to the God of my life

Oh God, we come to Your altar, to You,

Our joy and delight

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