What You Do

Scripture: Ecclesiasticus (Sirach) 17; Jeremiah 31:30-33; Hebrews 10:14-18

Oh what You do… aye.

Oh what You do… aye.

You give counsel, a tongue, eyes, the ears… and a heart to understand. Aye!

You fill us with the knowledge of wisdom, and show us good and evil.

Set Your eye upon our hearts that You might… show the greatness of Your works. Aye!

Oh what You do… aye.

Oh what You do… aye.

The Covenant You made… (it’s) forever

The Covenant You made… perpetual

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You allow participation forever… in Your awesome deeds. Aye!

And we’ll praise the Name of Your holiness, that we may declare Your works.

You add knowledge and give us a law… of life for a heritage. Aye!

Oh what You do… aye.

Oh what You do… aye.

The Covenant You made… (it’s) forever

The Covenant You made… perpetual

This Covenant, is beautiful

Your love, it is so sweet

(because)

Our wickedness- forgiven

My sins- remembered none

Your Laws are now, on my mind

And written on my heart!

Scripture Referenced:

Sirach 17

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Creation of Human Beings

1The Lord created human beings from the earth,

and makes them return to earth again.^a

2A limited number of days he gave them,^b

but granted them authority over everything on earth.

3He endowed them with strength like his own,

and made them in his image.

4He put fear of them in all flesh,

and gave them dominion over beasts and birds.^†

6Discernment, tongues, and eyes,

ears, and a mind for thinking he gave them.

7With knowledge and understanding he filled them;

good and evil he showed them.

8He put fear of him into their hearts

to show them the grandeur of his works,

9That they might describe the wonders of his deeds

10and praise his holy name.

11He set before them knowledge,

and allotted to them the law of life.

12An everlasting covenant he made with them,

and his commandments^* he revealed to them.

13His majestic glory their eyes beheld,

his glorious voice their ears heard.

14He said to them, “Avoid all evil”;

to each of them he gave precepts about their neighbor.

15Their ways are ever known to him,

they cannot be hidden from his eyes.^†

17Over every nation he appointed a ruler,^*

but Israel is the Lord’s own portion.^† c

19All their works are clear as the sun to him,

and his eyes are ever upon their ways.

20Their iniquities cannot be hidden from him;

all their sins are before the Lord.^†

22Human goodness is like a signet ring with God,

and virtue he keeps like the apple of his eye.

23Later he will rise up and repay them,

requiting each one as they deserve.^d

Appeal for a Return to God^*

24But to the penitent he provides a way back

and encourages those who are losing hope!

25Turn back to the Lord and give up your sins,

pray before him and make your offenses few.

26Turn again to the Most High and away from iniquity,

and hate intensely what he loathes.

27^* Who in Sheol can glorify the Most High^e

in place of the living who offer their praise?

28The dead can no more give praise than those who have never lived;

they who are alive and well glorify the Lord.

29How great is the mercy of the Lord,

and his forgiveness for those who return to him!

30For not everything is within human reach,

since human beings are not immortal.

31Is anything brighter than the sun? Yet it can be eclipsed.

How worthless^* then the thoughts of flesh and blood!

32God holds accountable the hosts of highest heaven,

while all mortals are dust and ashes.

Hebrews 10:14-18

For by one offering He has perfected forever those who are sanctified. ¹⁵ The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. For after He says:

¹⁶ This is the covenant I will make with them
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws on their hearts
and write them on their minds,

¹⁷ He adds:

I will never again remember
their sins and their lawless acts.^[c]

¹⁸ Now where there is forgiveness of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.

Jeremiah 31:31-34

The NEW Covenant

³¹ “Look, the days are coming”—this is the Lord’s declaration—“when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. ³² This one will not be like the covenant I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt—a covenant they broke even though I had married them”—the Lord’s declaration. ³³ “Instead, this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days”—the Lord’s declaration. “I will put My teaching within them and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be My people. ³⁴ No longer will one teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least to the greatest of them”—this is the Lord’s declaration. “For I will forgive their wrongdoing and never again remember their sin.”

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