The document is a song titled "God of the Poor (Beauty for Brokenness)" by Graham Kendrick. The song asks God to give compassion to the poor and weak, to melt cold hearts so that tears fall like rain, and to change love from a spark to a flame. It references providing for the needs of the disadvantaged, ending madness and greed so people are content with necessities, and breathing on the flame until God's justice burns brightly again.

1. Graham Kendrick
Copyright © 1993 Make Way Music,
www.grahamkendrick.co.uk

2. Praise the LORD.
Praise the LORD, you his servants;
praise the name of the LORD.
Let the name of the LORD be praised,
both now and forevermore.
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets,
the name of the LORD is to be praised.
The LORD is exalted over all the nations,
his glory above the heavens.
Who is like the LORD our God,
the One who sits enthroned on high,
who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the ash heap;
he seats them with princes,
with the princes of his people.
He settles the childless woman in her home
as a happy mother of children.
Praise the LORD.

3. Haleluya! Pujilah, hai hamba-hamba TUHAN,
pujilah nama TUHAN!
Kiranya nama TUHAN dimasyhurkan,
sekarang ini dan selama-lamanya.
Dari terbitnya sampai kepada terbenamnya matahari
terpujilah nama TUHAN.
TUHAN tinggi mengatasi segala bangsa,
kemuliaan-Nya mengatasi langit.
Siapakah seperti TUHAN, Allah kita,
yang diam di tempat yang tinggi, yang merendahkan diri
untuk melihat ke langit dan ke bumi?
Ia menegakkan orang yang hina dari dalam debu
dan mengangkat orang yang miskin dari lumpur, untuk
mendudukkan dia bersama-sama dengan para bangsawan,
bersama-sama dengan para bangsawan bangsanya.
Ia mendudukkan perempuan yang mandul di rumah
sebagai ibu anak-anak, penuh sukacita. Haleluya!

4. God of the Poor (Beauty for Brokenness) by Graham Kendrick

5. Beauty for brokenness
Hope for despair
Lord, in the suffering
This is our prayer
Bread for the children
Justice, joy, peace
Sunrise to sunset
Your kingdom increase!

6. Shelter for fragile lives
Cures for their ills
Work for the craftsman
Trade for their skills
Land for the dispossessed
Rights for the weak
Voices to plead the cause
Of those who can't speak

7. God of the poor
Friend of the weak
Give us compassion we pray
Melt our cold hearts
Let tears fall like rain
Come, change our love
From a spark to a flame

8. Refuge from cruel wars
Havens from fear
Cities for sanctuary
Freedoms to share
Peace to the killing-fields
Scorched earth to green
Christ for the bitterness
His cross for the pain

9. God of the poor
Friend of the weak
Give us compassion we pray
Melt our cold hearts
Let tears fall like rain
Come, change our love
From a spark to a flame

10. Rest for the ravaged earth
Oceans and streams
Plundered and poisoned
Our future, our dreams
Lord, end our madness
Carelessness, greed
Make us content with
The things that we need

11. God of the poor
Friend of the weak
Give us compassion we pray
Melt our cold hearts
Let tears fall like rain
Come, change our love
From a spark to a flame

12. Lighten our darkness
Breathe on this flame
Until your justice
Burns brightly again
Until the nations
Learn of your ways
Seek your salvation
And bring you their praise

13. God of the poor
Friend of the weak
Give us compassion we pray
Melt our cold hearts
Let tears fall like rain
Come, change our love
From a spark to a flame