264. Missionary Triumphs. Psalm 98. L.M.
1.Come, let us sing before the
Lord
New songs of praise with sweet accord,
For wonders great by Him are done,
His mighty arm has victory won.
2.The great salvation of our God
Is seen through all the earth abroad;
Before the nations' wondering sight
He has revealed His truth and right.
3.He called to mind the truth and
grace
Bestowed upon His chosen race,
And unto earth's remotest bound
Glad tidings of salvation sound.
4.All lands, to God lift up your
voice,
Sing praise to Him, with shouts rejoice;
With voice of joy and loud acclaim
Let all unite and praise His Name.
5.Praise ye the Lord with harp and
song,
With voice of psalms His praise prolong;
In swelling chorus gladly sing
And shout before the Lord the King.
6.Let earth be glad, let oceans roar,
And praises sound from shore to shore;
Let floods and hills with glad accord
Show forth their joy before the Lord.
7.For, lo, He comes; at His command
All nations shall in judgment stand;
In justice robed, and throned in light,
The Lord shall judge, dispensing right.
150. Desire For Rest. Psalm 55. 8s.
1.O God, give Thou ear to my plea,
And hide not Thyself from my cry;
O hearken and answer Thou me,
As restless and weary I sigh.
2.O that I had wings like a dove,
For then I would fly far away
And seek for the rest that I love,
Where trouble no more could dismay.
3.Nay, soul, call on God all the day;
The Lord for Thy help will appear;
At eve, morn, and noon humbly pray,
And He thy petition will hear.
4.Thy burden now cast on the Lord,
And He shall thy weakness sustain;
The righteous who trust in His word
Unmoved shall forever remain.
266. The Holiness of God. Psalm 99. 12s, 13, 10.
1.God is King forever: let the
nations tremble;
Throned above the cherubim, by all the earth adored;
He is great in Zion, high above all peoples;
Praise Him with fear, for holy is the Lord.
2.Merciful as mighty, He delights in
justice,
For He reigns in righteousness and rules in equity;
Worship and exalt Him, bowing down before Him,
Perfect in power and holiness is He.
3.Holy men of old in Him alone
confided;
He forgave their sins, although they felt His chastening rod;
In His holy temple worship and adore Him,
Faithful and holy is the Lord our God.
416. As the Hart, About to Falter.
Psalm 42. 8 7 8 7 7 7 8
1.As the hart, about to falter,
In its trembling agony,
Panteth for the brooks of water,
So my soul doth pant for Thee.
Yea, athirst for Thee I cry;
God of life, O when shall I
Come again to stand before Thee
In Thy temple, and adore Thee?
2.Bitter tears of lamentation
Are my food by night and day;
In my deep humiliation
Where is now thy God? they say.
Yea, my soul doth melt in me,
When I bring to memory,
How of yore I did assemble
With the joyful in Thy temple.
3.O my soul, why art thou grieving,
Why disquieted in me?
Hope in God, thy faith retrieving;
Let Him still thy refuge be.
I shall yet extol His grace
For the comfort of His face;
He has ever turned my sorrow
Into gladness on the morrow.
4.From the land beyond the Jordan
I bewail my misery;
From the foothills of Mount Hermon,
O my God, I think of Thee.
As the waters plunge and leap,
Deep re-echoes unto deep;
All Thy waves and billows roaring
O'er my troubled soul are pouring.
5.But the Lord will send salvation,
And by day His love provide;
He shall be my exultation,
And my song at eventide.
On His praise e'en in the night
I will ponder with delight,
And in prayer, transcending distance,
Seek the God of my existence.
6.I will say to God, my fortress:
Why hast Thou forsaken me?
Why go I about in sadness
For my foes' dread tyranny?
Their rebukes and scoffing words
Pierce my bones as pointed sword,
As they say with proud defiance:
Where is God, thy soul's reliance?
7.O my soul, why art thou grieving;
Why disquieted in me?
Hope in God, thy faith retrieving;
He will still thy refuge be.
I shall yet through all my days
Give to Him my thankful praise;
God, who will from shame deliver,
Is my God, my rock, forever.
156. Wickedness and Retribution. Psalm 58. C.M.
1.Do ye, O men, speak righteousness
And upright judgment mete?
Nay, in your hearts is wickedness,
And in your hands deceit.
2.The wicked, from their earliest
days,
In sin are gone astray,
With froward heart, in foolish pride,
From wisdom turned away.
3.The God of vengeance will destroy
The wicked from His sight;
The Lord will bring to nought their power
And scatter all their might.
4.The good shall triumph and rejoice,
And this shall be confessed:
On earth the God of justice reigns,
And righteousness is blessed.
360. Family Happiness. Psalm 128. 8s and 7s.
1.Blest the man that fears Jehovah,
Walking ever in His ways;
By thy toil thou shalt be prospered
And be happy all thy days.
2.In thy wife thou shalt have
gladness,
She shall fill thy home with good,
Happy in her loving service
And the joys of motherhood.
3.Joyful children, sons and
daughters,
Shall about thy table meet,
Olive plants, in strength and beauty,
Full of hope and promise sweet.
4.Lo, on him that fears Jehovah
Shall this blessedness attend,
For Jehovah out of Zion
Shall to thee His blessing send.
5.Thou shalt see God's kingdom
prosper
All thy days, till life shall cease,
Thou shalt see thy children's children;
On Thy people, Lord, be peace.
320. Thankfulness and Triumphant Joy. Psalm 118. L.M.
1.Ye gates of peace and joy untold,
Ye gates of righteousness, unfold,
That I may enter in and raise
A song of thankfulness and praise.
2.Within Thy gates, O God of grace,
Thy saints shall find a dwellingplace;
My thanks and praise to Thee I bear,
My Saviour, Who hast heard my prayer.
3.What wondrous things the Lord hath
wrought!
The stone the builders set at naught,
Established by no human hand,
The chiefest cornerstone doth stand.
4.In this the day the Lord hath made
To Him be joyful honors paid;
Let us Thy full salvation see,
O Lord, send now prosperity.
5.Hosanna! Praise to Him proclaim
Who cometh in Jehovah's Name;
May blessing from God's dwellingplace
Descend on us in boundless grace.
229. Days in the Sanctuary. Psalm 84. L.M.
1.How lovely, Lord of Hosts, to me
The tabernacles of Thy grace;
O how I long, yea, faint to see
Thy hallowed courts, Thy dwelling place;
For Thee my heart and spirit sigh,
For Thee, O living God, I cry.
2.The sparrow has her place of rest;
The swallow, through Thy kindly care,
Has found where she may build her nest
And brood her young in safety there;
Thy altars as my rest I sing,
O Lord of Hosts, my God, my King.
3.Blest they who in Thy house abide,
They still to Thee shall render praise;
Blest they who in Thy strength confide,
And in whose hearts are Zion's ways;
Though passing through the vale of tears,
Like springs of joy Thy grace appears.
4.Advancing still from strength to
strength,
They onward go where saints have trod,
Till every one appears at length
In Zion's courts before his God;
Jehovah, God of Hosts, give ear,
Our fathers' God, in mercy hear.
5.Upon us look, O God, our shield,
The face of Thy anointed see;
A thousand other days can yield
No gladness like one day with Thee;
Though only at Thy door I wait,
No tents of sin give joy so great.
6.Jehovah, God our Shield and Sun,
Will grace and glory surely give;
No good will He withhold from one
Who in His sight shall rightly live;
O Lord of Hosts, most blest is he
Who puts his steadfast trust in Thee.
247. God Our Help and Hope. Psalm 90. C.M.
1.O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Our shelter from the stormy blast,
And our eternal home.
2.Under the shadow of Thy throne
Thy saints have dwelt secure;
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,
And our defense is sure.
3.Before the hills in order stood,
Or earth received her frame,
From everlasting Thou art God,
To endless years the same.
4.A thousand ages in Thy sight
Are like an evening gone,
Short as the watch that ends the night
Before the rising sun.
5.Time, like an everrolling stream,
Bears all its sons away;
They fly forgotten, as a dream
Dies at the opening day.
6.O God, our help in ages past,
Our hope for years to come,
Be Thou our guard while troubles last,
And our eternal home.
53. The Lord Our Shepherd. Psalm 23. C.M.
1.The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not
want;
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; He leadeth me
The quiet waters by.
2.My soul He doth restore again,
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of righteousness,
E'en for His own Name's sake.
3.Yea, though I walk through death's
dark vale,
Yet will I fear no ill,
For Thou art with me, and Thy rod
And staff me comfort still.
4.A table Thou hast furnished me
In presence of my foes;
My head Thou dost with oil anoint,
And my cup overflows.
5.Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me,
And in God's house forevermore
My dwellingplace shall be.
Psalm 24 (From the Scottish Psalter)
1 The earth belongs unto the Lord,
and all that it contains;
The world that is inhabited,
and all that there remains.
2 For the foundations thereof
he on the seas did lay,
And he hath it established
upon the floods to stay.
3 Who is the man that shall ascend
into the hill of God?
Or who within his holy place
shall have a firm abode?
4 Whose hands are clean, whose heart is pure,
and unto vanity
Who hath not lifted up his soul,
nor sworn deceitfully.
5 He from th' Eternal shall receive
the blessing him upon,
And righteousness, ev'n from the God
of his salvation.
6 This is the generation
that after him enquire,
O Jacob, who do seek thy face
with their whole heart's desire.
7 Ye gates, lift up your heads on high;
ye doors that last for aye,
Be lifted up, that so the King
of glory enter may.
8 But who of glory is the King?
The mighty Lord is this;
Ev'n that same Lord, that great in might
and strong in battle is.
9 Ye gates, lift up your heads; ye doors,
doors that do last for aye,
Be lifted up, that so the King
of glory enter may.
10 But who is he that is the King
of glory? who is this?
The Lord of hosts, and none but he,
the King of glory is.
36. Our Source of Strength. Psalm 18. L.M.
1.As Thou, O Lord, hast made me
strong
To overcome my mighty foe,
So now to fight against the wrong
And conquer in Thy Name I go.
2.From strife Thou wilt deliver me,
And make the nations own my sway;
Strange peoples, when my power they see,
Shall come with trembling and obey.
3.Jehovah lives, and blest is He,
My rock, my refuge and defense,
My Saviour Who delivers me,
And will the wicked recompense.
4.For grace and mercy ever near,
For foes subdued and victories won,
All nations of the earth shall hear
My praise for what the Lord has done.
5.To David, His anointed king,
And to his sons upon his throne,
The Lord will great salvation bring
And ever make His mercy known.
315. The Universal Fellowship of Worship. Psalm 117. 8s and 7s.
1.Praise Jehovah, all ye nations,
All ye people, praise proclaim;
For His grace and lovingkindness
O sing praises to His Name.
For the greatness of His mercy
Constant praise to Him accord;
Evermore His truth endureth;
Hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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