Category: Songs of Christ

1    I mercy will and judgment sing,

          Lord, I will sing to thee.

2    With wisdom in a perfect way

          shall my behaviour be.

     O when, in kindness unto me,

          wilt thou be pleas’d to come?

     I with a perfect heart will walk

          within my house at home.

3    I will endure no wicked thing

          before mine eyes to be:

     I hate their work that turn aside,

          it shall not cleave to me.

4    A stubborn and a froward heart

          depart quite from me shall;

     A person giv’n to wickedness

          I will not know at all.

5    I’ll cut him off that slandereth

          his neighbour privily:

     The haughty heart I will not bear,

          nor him that looketh high.

6    Upon the faithful of the land

          mine eyes shall be, that they

     May dwell with me: he shall me serve

          that walks in perfect way.

7    Who of deceit a worker is

          in my house shall not dwell;

     And in my presence shall he not

          remain that lies doth tell.

8    Yea, all the wicked of the land

          early destroy will I;

     All from God’s city to cut off

          that work iniquity.

1    The Lord doth reign, and cloth’d is he

          with majesty most bright;

     His works do shew him cloth’d to be,

          and girt about with might.

     The world is also stablished,

          that it cannot depart.

2    Thy throne is fix’d of old, and thou

          from everlasting art.

3    The floods, O Lord, have lifted up,

          they lifted up their voice;

     The floods have lifted up their waves,

          and made a mighty noise.

4    But yet the Lord, that is on high,

          is more of might by far

     Than noise of many waters is,

          or great sea-billows are.

5    Thy testimonies ev’ry one

          in faithfulness excel;

     And holiness for ever, Lord,

          thine house becometh well.

1    O sing a new song to the Lord,

          for wonders he hath done:

     His right hand and his holy arm

          him victory hath won.

2    The Lord God his salvation

          hath caused to be known;

     His justice in the heathen’s sight

          he openly hath shown.

3    He mindful of his grace and truth

          to Isr’el’s house hath been;

     And the salvation of our God

          all ends of th’ earth have seen.

4    Let all the earth unto the Lord

          send forth a joyful noise;

     Lift up your voice aloud to him,

          sing praises, and rejoice.

5    With harp, with harp, and voice of psalms,

          unto Jehovah sing:

6    With trumpets, cornets, gladly sound

          before the Lord the King.

7    Let seas and all their fulness roar;

          the world, and dwellers there;

8    Let floods clap hands, and let the hills

          together joy declare

9    Before the Lord; because he comes,

          to judge the earth comes he:

     He’ll judge the world with righteousness,

          his folk with equity.

1    O come, let us sing to the Lord:

          come, let us ev’ry one

     A joyful noise make to the Rock

          of our salvation.

2    Let us before his presence come

          with praise and thankful voice;

     Let us sing psalms to him with grace,

          and make a joyful noise.

3    For God, a great God, and great King,

          above all gods he is.

4    Depths of the earth are in his hand,

          the strength of hills is his.

5    To him the spacious sea belongs,

          for he the same did make;

     The dry land also from his hands

          its form at first did take.

6    O come, and let us worship him,

          let us bow down withal,

     And on our knees before the Lord

          our Maker let us fall.

7    For he’s our God, the people we

          of his own pasture are,

     And of his hand the sheep; to-day,

          if ye his voice will hear,

8    Then harden not your hearts, as in

          the provocation,

     As in the desert, on the day

          of the tentation:

9    When me your fathers tempt’d and prov’d,

          and did my working see;

10   Ev’n for the space of forty years

          this race hath grieved me.

     I said, This people errs in heart,

          my ways they do not know:

11   To whom I sware in wrath, that to

          my rest they should not go.

1    He that doth in the secret place

          of the most High reside,

     Under the shade of him that is

          th’ Almighty shall abide.

2    I of the Lord my God will say,

          He is my refuge still,

     He is my fortress, and my God,

          and in him trust I will.

3    Assuredly he shall thee save,

          and give deliverance

     From subtile fowler’s snare, and from

          the noisome pestilence.

4    His feathers shall thee hide; thy trust

          under his wings shall be:

     His faithfulness shall be a shield

          and buckler unto thee.

5    Thou shalt not need to be afraid

          for terrors of the night;

     Nor for the arrow that doth fly

          by day, while it is light;

6    Nor for the pestilence, that walks

          in darkness secretly;

     Nor for destruction, that doth waste

          at noon-day openly.

7    A thousand at thy side shall fall,

          on thy right hand shall lie

     Ten thousand dead; yet unto thee

          it shall not once come nigh.

8    Only thou with thine eyes shalt look,

          and a beholder be;

     And thou therein the just reward

          of wicked men shalt see.

9    Because the Lord, who constantly

          my refuge is alone,

     Ev’n the most High, is made by thee

          thy habitation;

10   No plague shall near thy dwelling come;

          no ill shall thee befall:

11   For thee to keep in all thy ways

          his angels charge he shall.

12   They in their hands shall bear thee up,

          still waiting thee upon;

     Lest thou at any time should’st dash

          thy foot against a stone.

13   Upon the adder thou shalt tread,

          and on the lion strong;

     Thy feet on dragons trample shall,

          and on the lions young.

14   Because on me he set his love,

          I’ll save and set him free;

     Because my great name he hath known,

          I will him set on high.

15   He’ll call on me, I’ll answer him;

          I will be with him still

     In trouble, to deliver him,

          and honour him I will.

16   With length of days unto his mind

          I will him satisfy;

     I also my salvation

          will cause his eyes to see.

1    Lord, thou hast been our dwelling-place
          in generations all.
2    Before thou ever hadst brought forth
          the mountains great or small;

     Ere ever thou hadst form’d the earth,
          and all the world abroad;
     Ev’n thou from everlasting art
          to everlasting God.

3    Thou dost unto destruction
          man that is mortal turn;
     And unto them thou say’st, Again,
          ye sons of men, return.

4    Because a thousand years appear
          no more before thy sight
     Than yesterday, when it is past,
          or than a watch by night.

5    As with an overflowing flood
          thou carry’st them away:
     They like a sleep are, like the grass
          that grows at morn are they.

6    At morn it flourishes and grows,
          cut down at ev’n doth fade.
7    For by thine anger we’re consum’d,
          thy wrath makes us afraid.

8    Our sins thou and iniquities
          dost in thy presence place,
     And sett’st our secret faults before
          the brightness of thy face.

9    For in thine anger all our days
          do pass on to an end;
     And as a tale that hath been told,
          so we our years do spend.

10   Threescore and ten years do sum up
          our days and years, we see;
     Or, if, by reason of more strength,
          in some fourscore they be:

     Yet doth the strength of such old men
          but grief and labour prove;
     For it is soon cut off, and we
          fly hence, and soon remove.

Verses 11-17 to the tune of To Us A Child of Hope Is Born

11   Who knows the power of thy wrath?
          according to thy fear
12   So is thy wrath: Lord, teach thou us
          our end in mind to bear;

     And so to count our days, that we
          our hearts may still apply
     To learn thy wisdom and thy truth,
          that we may live thereby.

13   Turn yet again to us, O Lord,
          how long thus shall it be?
     Let it repent thee now for those
          that servants are to thee.

14   O with thy tender mercies, Lord,
          us early satisfy;
     So we rejoice shall all our days,
          and still be glad in thee.

15   According as the days have been,
          wherein we grief have had,
     And years wherein we ill have seen,
          so do thou make us glad.

16   O let thy work and pow’r appear
          thy servants’ face before;
     And shew unto their children dear
          thy glory evermore:

17   And let the beauty of the Lord
          our God be us upon:
     Our handy-works establish thou,
          establish them each one.

1    I waited for the Lord my God,
          and patiently did bear;
     At length to me he did incline
          my voice and cry to hear.

2    He took me from a fearful pit,
          and from the miry clay,
     And on a rock he set my feet,
          establishing my way.

3    He put a new song in my mouth,
          our God to magnify:
     Many shall see it, and shall fear,
          and on the Lord rely.

4    O blessed is the man whose trust
          upon the Lord relies;
     Respecting not the proud, nor such
          as turn aside to lies.

5    O Lord my God, full many are
          the wonders thou hast done;
     Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
          above all thoughts are gone:

     In order none can reckon them

          to thee: if them declare,

     And speak of them I would, they more

          than can be number’d are.

6    No sacrifice nor offering

          didst thou at all desire;

     Mine ears thou bor’d: sin-off ‘ring thou

          and burnt didst not require:

7    Then to the Lord these were my words,

          I come, behold and see;

     Within the volume of the book

          it written is of me:

8    To do thy will I take delight,

          O thou my God that art;

     Yea, that most holy law of thine

          I have within my heart.

9    Within the congregation great

          I righteousness did preach:

     Lo, thou dost know, O Lord, that I

          refrained not my speech.

10   I never did within my heart

          conceal thy righteousness;

     I thy salvation have declar’d,

          and shown thy faithfulness:

     Thy kindness, which most loving is,

          concealed have not I,

     Nor from the congregation great

          have hid thy verity.

11   Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me

          O do thou not restrain;

     Thy loving-kindness, and thy truth,

          let them me still maintain.

12   For ills past reck’ning compass me,

          and mine iniquities

     Such hold upon me taken have,

          I cannot lift mine eyes:

     They more than hairs are on mine head,

          thence is my heart dismay’d.

13   Be pleased, Lord, to rescue me;

          Lord, hasten to mine aid.

14   Sham’d and confounded be they all

          that seek my soul to kill;

     Yea, let them backward driven be,

          and sham’d, that wish me ill.

15   For a reward of this their shame

          confounded let them be.

     That in this manner scoffing say,

          Aha, aha! to me.

16   In thee let all be glad, and joy,

          who seeking thee abide;

     Who thy salvation love, say still,

          The Lord be magnify’d.

17   I’m poor and needy, yet the Lord

          of me a care doth take:

     Thou art my help and saviour,

          my God, no tarrying make.