God Does What He Says

Here’s the story I’ll tell my friends when they come to worship,

    and punctuate it with Hallelujahs:

Shout Hallelujah, you God-worshipers;

    give glory, you sons of Jacob;

    adore him, you daughters of Israel.

He has never let you down,

    never looked the other way

    when you were being kicked around.

He has never wandered off to do his own thing;

    he has been right there, listening.

 Here in this great gathering for worship

    I have discovered this praise-life.

And I’ll do what I promised right here

    in front of the God-worshipers.

Down-and-outers sit at God’s table

    and eat their fill.

Everyone on the hunt for God

    is here, praising him.

“Live it up, from head to toe.

    Don’t ever quit!”

 From the four corners of the earth

    people are coming to their senses,

    are running back to God.

Long-lost families

    are falling on their faces before him.

God has taken charge;

    from now on he has the last word.

 All the power-mongers are before him

    —worshiping!

All the poor and powerless, too

    —worshiping!

Along with those who never got it together

    —worshiping!

 Our children and their children

    will get in on this

As the word is passed along

    from parent to child.

Babies not yet conceived

    will hear the good news—

    that God does what he says.

- Psalm 22:22-31