written be left on record They that hereafter shall be made Shall gladly serve and praise the Lord. 19 The Lord lookt down on all below Even from his high and holy place The earth unto the Lord of Heaven Is ever seen before his face 20 To hear the prisoners doleful groans And save men falsly judg'd-to die 21 God's name in Sion to declare Him there to praise and magnifie 22 When many people far and nigh Meet there to pray with one accord And when the Kingdoms shall consent To fear and serve the highest Lord. 23 My strength he weakened in the way As shortning my Life 's short day 24 I said By an untimely death Lord take me not in wrath away Through Ages all thou art the same 25 The solid Earth's Foundations laid Thou hast of old Heavens are the Work Which thy own Power and Hands have made 26 They perish shall but thou shalt stand As garments they shall all wax old Thou shalt them change as Men their Cloaths And as a Vesture them up fold 27 But thou art endlesly the same 28 Thy Servants Off-spring shall survive Their Seed established by thee Shall in thy blessed presence live PSALM CIII 1 MY Soul bless thou the glorious God Praise him and celebrate his Fame Let all my inward Powers concur To praise and bless his holy Name 2 Still bless the living Lord my Soul Never do thou sleight or forget Unthankfully his benefits So many undeserv'd and great 3 Thy many great provoking sins His Mercy freely doth forgive He thy Diseases and thy Pains Doth heal or ease and thee relieve 4 He did redeem thy forfeit Life And it from threatned death did free And with his loving kindness great And tender Mercies crowned thee 5 What hast thou wanted that is good To satisfie thy just desire Thy strength like Eagles he renew'd Reviving nature's languid fire 6 God will just Judgment execute For them by man oppress'd that are 7 To Moses and to Israel's seed His ways and acts he did declare 8 Gracious and merciful is God Great is his mercy high and deep 9 He 's slow to wrath he chides not still Nor doth his anger ever keep 10 He hath not dealt with us in wrath According to our hainous sin Nor strictly us rewarded hath As our guilt and deserts have bin 11 But as the great and glorious heav'ns Than this low earth far higher are God's mercy so transcendent is To all that do him truly fear 12 As far as East is from the West So far from us remov'd hath he Our hated and forsaken sin And our bewail'd iniquity 13 As loving Parents taught of God Pity to their dear Children bear The Lord of Love will pity them That serve him with true child-like fear 14 For he remembers flesh is dust Our frail and mortal frame he knows 15 And that the days of man on earth Are like the grass in field that grows 16 There flowers flourish but sharp winds Blast them and they are quickly gone And to the place which they persum'd And beautify'd they are unknown 17 But unto such as do him fear God's boundless mercy hath no end And his sure love and righteousness To Childrens Children doth extend 18 To such as keep his Covenant And his Commandments keep in mind And them sincerely do obey And therein their chief pleasure find 19 The Lord his Throne prepared hath In heaven where Saints his glory see And all the world his Kingdom is And Ruler over all is he 20 You mighty Angels great in strength Must bless the Lord with highest praise Your holiness fulfils his will And readily his voice obeys 21 All ye his great and glorious Hosts For ever bless and praise the Lord You serve the pleasure of his will And all as one obey his word 22 Let all his works through all the world To praise their glorious Lord accord And O my soul bear thou thy part And ever bless and praise the Lord. PSALM CIV 1 MY soul bless thou the living Lord Thou Lord my God art very great With honour and with majesty Thou cloathed art in glorious state 2 The fulgent light thy covering is Appearing in it as thy robes Thou like a curtain dost stretch out The Heavens with all their splendid globes 3 The beams of his great Chambers he Doth in the liquid waters lay The Clouds he makes his Chariots On winged Winds he takes his way 4 Blest Spirits he his Angels makes His Ministers a flaming fire 5 The Earth's Foundations firm he laid That nothing shall them ever stir 6 Like to a Garment with the deep The Earth by thee was covered The Waters stood above the Hills 7 But soon at thy rebuke they fled Thy thunders voice hasts them away 8 They go up by the mountain ground Down by the Valleys they go to The place which thou for them didst found 9 Thou unto them a bound hast set That over it they may not pass That the Earth again may not be drown'd By them as once for sin it was 10 He sends the Springs into the Vales They sweetly run between the Hills 11 They 're drink for all beasts of the Fields There his great thirst the wild Ass fills 12 By these sweet Streams the Fowls of Heav'n Do use to make their dwelling house For them and theirs They chirp and sing Among the pleasant shady Boughs 13 And from his cloudy Chambers he Doth water even the highest Hills And by his satisfying Works The Earth with plenteous fruit he fills 14 He for the Food of Cattle makes The tender Grass spring and suit forth And for Man's service various Herbs And so he brings food from the Earth 15 And Wine which doth exhilerate And Oil which doth smooth and refresh And Bread which strengtheneth Man's Heart And doth repair his wasting flesh 16 The Trees of God are full of Sap The stately Cedars which do stand In Lebanon and planted were Even by his own Almighty hand 17 The beauteous Birds among these Trees By Nature's skill their Nests do make As for the Stork the Firr-trees she Doth for her lofty dwelling take 18 The Mountains high for the wild Goats A place of secure refuge be The Conies in the craggy Rocks Dwell and for safety thither flee 19 The changing Moon he doth appoint The Seasons change to Man to shew The glorious Sun as taught by God Its time to rise and set doth know 20 The dismal darkness thou dost make And then the day gives place to night And in the Forests then come forth Wild beasts that shun Man and the Light 21 The hungry Lyons with their whelps Do then go roaring all abroad After their prey and fiercely seek Their sustenance assign'd from God 22 But when the shining Sun doth rise They get away together then For fear of Man and lay them down For rest and safety in their den 23 Then Man goes forth unto his work When he enjoys desired light His proper
Word 5 There God hath placed Thrones of Power To judge his flock in righteousness The promis'd Thrones of David's house Which God 's own Government express 6 Pray for Jerusalem's true peace Lord prosper all her faithful friends 7 Her Courts bless with prosperity Let Peace within her walls defend 8 For my dear holy brethrens sake Who have my faithful comforts bin I 'le daily beg of God for thee Safety without and Peace within 9 And for the sake of God's own house Where we his name must praise and bless With all the powers of my soul I 'le seek thy real happiness PSALM CXXIII 1 LOrd in my lowest state To thee I lift mine eye Whose glorious dwelling is above Even in the heavens high 2 As servants eyes do look Unto their Master's hands And as a maiden doth expect Her Mistresses Commands So on the Lord our God Our eyes do still attend Until to our relief and help His mercy condescend 3 Have mercy on us Lord On us thy mercy show For we are filled with contempt From the insulting foe 4 Our souls fill'd with the scorn Of those that are at ease Are overwhelm'd with the contempt Of the proud foes of peace PSALM CXXIV 1 HAd not the Lord been on our side His Israel must now confess 2 Had not the Lord been on our side When men of blood sought our distress 3 Then they had swallow'd us alive When their hot wrath against us flam'd 4 The waters of their furious rage Over our sinking souls had stream'd 5 Then had these proud insulting waves O'rewhelm'd us with their cruel Laws 6 Blest be the Lord who made us not A prey unto their greedy jaws 7 Our soul like an entangled bird Escap'd out of the Fowler 's snare The snare our pow'rful Lord hath broke Our trembling souls escaped are 8 Our only help we find doth stand In the great name of our great Lord Whose power made the glorious heav'ns The earth and all things by his word PSALM CXXV 1 THey that in God put all their trust Shall firmly stand like Sion hill Which by no changes is remov'd But is the same and standeth still 2 And as about Jerusalem Mountains enclose that holy ground So will the Lord for evermore Himself his people compass round 3 For just mens rights and heritage Wicked men shall not still possess Lest righteous men should then put forth Their tempted hand to wickedness 4 Do good Lord to those that are good To men that are of upright heart But as for such as turn aside In crooked ways by sin pervert 5 The Lord shall lead them forth with those Who love and work iniquity But everlasting blessed peace On God 's true Israel shall be PSALM CXXVI 1 WHen God did lay aside his wrath And Captive Sion did redeem The great surprisal of our joy Made us like men that do but dream 2 Our mouth then fill'd with laughter did By singing our great joy express That God hath done great things for us The heathen enemies did confess 3 That God hath done great things for us We speak with glad and thankful mouth 4 Fully restore thy Captives Lord As streams refresh the scorched South 5 They that do sow in mournful tears Their water'd seed's not cast away But they a multiplyed crop Shall shortly reap with endless joy 6 He that in tears doth now go forth And cast his precious seed on earth With great increase in plenteous sheaves Shall come again with endless mirth PSALM CXXVII 1 EXcept the Lord do build house It 's but vain pains the builders take Except the Lord the City keep It 's but in vain the Watchmen wake 2 It 's vain for you betime to rise And late your selves from rest to keep To eat the bread of grief and care While God's beloved rest and sleep 3 Good Children are God's heritage The womb 's blest fruit is his reward 4 Children of youth like arrows are For Parents strength and joy prepar'd 5 Happy therein is he that hath His house his Quiver full of those For he unshamed in the gate Shall boldly speak unto his foes PSALM CXXVIII 1 BLest is each one that fears the Lord And walketh in his holy ways 2 For thou shalt of thy labour eat And happy shalt thou be always 3 As fruitful Vines by thy house-side So shall thy wife with fruit spring out Thy children like to Olive Plants Shall stand thy table round about 4 Behold the man that feareth God Blest visibly by him shall be 5 The Lord shall out of Sion give A plenteous blessing unto thee Jerusalem's good thou shalt see Whilst thou in life on earth dost dwell Thy Children's Children thou shalt see And promis'd peace on Israel PSALM CXXIX 1 MAny a time may Israel say With thankfulness to God in truth Have wicked men afflicted me Even from my prime and early youth 2 Many a time even from my youth Their cruel hands have me assail'd But for my wished overthrow They have not yet by rage prevail'd 3 The plowers plowing on my back Did long and bloody furrows make 4 But God is just and me preserv'd Their strongest cords he always brake 5 Let wicked men who Sion hate And all their plots confounded be Let them with shame be turned back And not their hop'd successes fee. 6 Let them be like the rootless grass Which grows a while on the house-tops And quickly withereth away Before they reach their wicked hopes 7 This grass fills not the mower's hand The binder finds no fruitful sheaves 8 Nor God nor man on such curs'd weeds A blessing either finds or leaves PSALM CXXX 1 OUt of the horrid woful deeps Where sin and wrath had cast me down To thee O Lord I poured forth My earnest suit and daily moan 2 O thou the Prayer-hearing God This humbled sinner's voice now hear To my loud cries and sad complaints Let pity grant a hearing ear 3 If in strict Justice thou should'st mark And charge on man iniquity Lord who shall stand at thy just bar Or who himself can justifie 4 But with thee there forgiveness is Thy word of grace doth this declare That sinful man may worship thee In joyful hope without despair 5 Therefore for thee O Lord I wait My soul doth daily wait on thee And on thy sure and faithful word My constant hope shall placed be 6 My soul more waiteth on the Lord Than they that watch for morning light More than the watchful man doth long To see a pleasant morning bright 7 O Israel still hope in the Lord Though low and broken be thy case For with the Lord still mercy is And we shall see his pleased face 8 Plenteous redemption with him is The Lord his chosen flock will bless He will redeem them from their sins And from their felt and fear'd distress PSALM CXXXI 1 LOrd I disclaim a haughty mind And an ambitious lofty eye I do not exercise my self In things for me
too great and high 2 Thou know'st I have behav'd my self In quietness as low and mild As a child weaned from the breast My soul 's even as a weaned child 3 Upon the Lord let Israel With fullest trust and hope rely Not only now but from henceforth Even un to all Eternity PSALM CXXXII 1 REmember David's troubles Lord 2 Who vow'd to Jacob's mighty God 3 And sware I 'le not come to my house Nor go for rest unto my bed 4 I 'le give mine eyes no sleep until 5 I find a holy place to dwell A habitation for the Lord The mighty God of Israel 6 At Shiloh's place in Ephraim We heard God's holy Ark once stood We found it also in the fields And in the City of the wood 7 We 'll go into his Tabernacle And humbly at his foot-stool bow 8 Arise O Lord unto thy rest Thy holy Ark of strength and Thou 9 Let righteousness be to thy Priests Their cloathing and their comely dress And let thy Saints that worship thee Even shout aloud for joyfulness 10 And for thy servant David's sake With shame turn not away the face Of him whom thou anointed hast And chosen freely by thy grace 11 The Lord to David sware in truth And surely will not turn from it Upon the Throne of Majesty Thy body 's Off-spring I will set 12 My Covenant if thy sons will keep And Laws which I to them make known Their Children also then shall sit For ever on thy Royal Throne 13 For Sion the Lord chosen hath And there to dwell he liketh best 14 This is my chosen dwelling-place This is my worship's fixed rest 15 I her provisions will maintain And it will bless abundantly And I her poor and needy ones With daily bread will satisfie 16 And I her sacred Priests will cloath With my preserving saving grace Her Saints shall shout aloud for joy Before my shining pleased face 17 There I 'le make David's horn of Power To bud forth and afresh to spring And there I have ordain'd a lamp For my anointed sacred King 18 His enemies I will subdue And with just shame I 'le cloath them all But on him and his faithful seed His Royal Crown still flourish shall PSALM CXXXIII 1 BEhold and try how good it is What holy pleasure it doth give When holy brethren serving God In love and unity do live 2 It perfumes like the precious Oyl Which poured was on Aarons head Which down his beard and garments all It s sacred fragrant odour spread 3 As fruitful dews from Hermon hill Which waters all the lower ground And streaming showers from Sion's Mount Make the low Vales with fruit abound So on his flock by Love and Peace God doth his fruitful grace entail Even the fore-taâ—â—e of that blest life Where Love and Peace shall never fail PSALM CXXXIV 1 SEe that ye bless the Lord Ye that his servants are Who in his house by night do stand To serve and praise him there 2 Lift up your hearts and hands To him with one accord In his appointed holy place There glorifie the Lord. 3 The Lord that made the heav'ns The earth and all that live His blessing out of Sion shall Plenteously to you give PSALM CXXXV 1 PRaise ye the Lord Praise his great name All ye his servants Praise your God 2 All you that in the Lord's house stand And in his Courts have your abode 3 Praise ye the Lord for he is good Sing praises to his holy name For it is sweet to be employ'd His holy praises to proclaim 4 He to himself hath Jacob chose And Israel his own treasure made 5 I know the Lord our God is great Above all Gods in honour had 6 In heav'n and earth the Lord hath done Whatever his own will did please And also in the deeps below And in the great and swelling Seas 7 From the earth's ends it 's he that makes The vapours upward to ascend He doth make Lightnings for the rain And Winds out of his treasure send 8 Egypt's first-born both man and beast He smote and wondrous tokens he 9 On Pharaoh and his servants sent O Egypt in the midst of thee 10 He smote great Nations slew great Kings 11 Sihon who was of Heshbon King And Og of Bashan and to nought All Canaan's Kingdoms he did bring 12 And gave their Land a heritage Unto his people Israel 13 Thy name Lord everlasting is For ever 's thy memorial 14 For God for his own people will To judge and save them yet arise And will turn and repent himself Of all his servants miseries 15 The Idols which are worshipped Abroad in all the Heathen lands They are of gold and silver made The meer work of the Craftsmens hands 16 A mouth they have but do not speak Eyes have they but they never saw 17 They have ears but they do not hear And mouths which never breath did draw 18 Their makers are even like to them And all that do on them rely 19 Bless ye the Lord O Israel's house Bless God O Aaron's family 20 His servants all of Levi's house Continually bless ye the Lord All every where that do him fear Daily bless God with one accord 21 In Sion God's own chosen place Bless him and there his praise record Who dwelleth at Jerusalem In holiness praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXXXVI The Scots Version 1 PRaise God for he is good His mercy lasts for aye 2 Give thanks with heart and mind To God of Gods alway For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 3 The Lord of Lords praise ye Whose mercies still endure 4 Great wonders only he Doth work by his great power For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 5 Which God Omnipotent By might and mercies high The Heav'ns and Firmament Did frame as you may see For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 6 To him who did out-stretch This earth so great and wide Above the waters reach Making it to abide For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 7 Great Lights he made to be For his grace lafteth aye 8 Such as the Sun we see To rule the lightsome day For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 9 Also the Moon so clear Which shineth in our sight The Stars that do appear To guide the darksome night For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 10 To him that Egypt smote Who did his message scorn And in his anger hot Did kill all their first-born For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 11 Thence Israel out he brought For his grace lafteth ever 12 With a strong hand he wrought And stretch'd-out arm deliver For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 13 The Sea he cut in two For his grace lasteth still 14 And through the midst to go Made his own Israel For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure
freely shew to thine 17 Let me not be asham'd O Lord For I did trust and call on thee Let wicked men be sham'd cut off In their graves silent let them be 18 To silence put the lying lips Which grievous things and false do say And hard reports in pride and scorn On righteous men do falsly lay 19 O how great is the goodness which Thou hast laid up and wrought for the◠Who fear thee and who trust in thee Even here before the sons of men 20 Thou in thy secret presence dost Hide them from cruel pride and wrongs Kept in thy close Pavilion From all the strife of lying tongues 21 All thanks and praise be to the Lord For he hath shewn and magnify'd His wondrous love to me within A City strong and fortify'd 22 I said in hast I am cut off And put even from before thine eyes Yet didst thou hear my praying voice And didst regard my mournful cries 23 O love the Lord all ye his Saints For still the Lord the faithful guards And proud Oppressors thô secure In time he plenteously rewards 24 Be of good courage and more strength He to your fainting hearts will send All ye whose hope and confidence Doth truly on the Lord depend PSALM XXXII 1 HE though a sinner blessed is Whose guilt and loath'd transgression God freely doth to him forgive Covering what he hath been and done 2 He 's blest to whom the Lord doth not Impute and charge iniquity And in whose spirit reigneth not Guile Falshood or Hypocrisie 3 While I in silence hid my sin And had not duly it confest My bones wax'd old and roaring pains All day allowed me no rest 4 Through painful weary days and nights I bare thy just and heavy hand My strength and moisture are consum'd Like Summers drought on scorched land 5 My sin I then acknowleding With humbling grief my self did blame I did confess it all to thee And did bewail my guilt and shame When my repenting soul resolv'd All to confess with grief to God Thou mercifully didst forgive And oft lay by thy chastening rod. 6 Such mercy shall encourage all The godly still in hope to pray And seek to thee in their distress In an accepted finding day Surely when waters great do swell And threatning floods cause me to fear Him that thus seeks and trusts in thee They shall not hurt or once come near 7 Thou art my help and hiding place Against all trouble fears and wrongs And thy deliverances shall cause Mine and thy peoples thankful songs 8 Saith God I 'le thee instruct and teach The righteous way where thou shalt go Mine eye shall always on thee be My guiding Counsels I 'le thee show 9 Be not like brutish Horse and Mule Which ruling understanding want But must be rul'd by bridling force And kept from hurt by mans restraint 10 To all self-flattering wicked men Their self-made sorrows do abound But him that trusteth in the Lord Mercy shall save and compass round 11 Ye righteous in the Lord be glad With thankful hearts in him rejoyce All ye that are of upright hearts Aloud sing praise with joyful voice PSALM XXXIII 1 YE righteous in the Lord rejoyce For chearful praise becometh Saints 2 Praise God with Psaltery Harp and Voice And with sweet ten-string'd Instruments 3 Play skilfully with a loud noise And sing to him a song that 's new 4 For all the Word of God is right And all his works are sure and true 5 God greatly loveth righteousness And judgment well ad ministred And with the goodness of the Lord The earth's richly replenished 6 By the Almighty Word of God The vast and glorious Heav'ns were made And by the spirit of his mouth Their whole host all their being had 7 The waters of the Sea he keeps On heaps confined by the shore He layeth up the liquid deeps As Treasures in a house of store 8 Let all the people of the earth The Lord Almighty serve with fear And all the world's inhabitants To him due awe and reverence bear 9 He spake but the creating word And it was done and all things made He did but potently command And it stood faft as firmly stay'd 10 The Counsels of the Nations rude The Ruling Lord doth bring to nought He doth defeat the multitude Of their device and wicked thought 11 But all the counsels of the Lord Do stand unchang'd for ever sure And all the purposes of God Beyond all ages do endure 12 That Nation blessed is to whom The Lord as their own God is known And those whom as an heritage He loves and chooseth for his own 13 The Lord looks down from Heav'n and sees All done by men of humane birth 14 And from his habitation views Even all the dwellers of the earth 15 He fashioneth their hearts alike And all their doings he observes 16 No King is saved by an Host Much strength no Mighty man preserves 17 A horse of war is a valn thing To save a man in time of fight Nor shall deliver any man Either by swiftness or by might 18 But upon those that do him fear The Lord doth set his gracious eye On those that on his mercy do With hope and confidence rely 19 To save them from a pining death In Famine food and life to yield 20 Our soul still waiteth for the Lord He is our help and only shield 21 Because his holy name we trust Our hearts in him shall joyful be 22 Lord let thy mercy be on us As we do place our hope in thee PSALM XXXIV 1 AT all times I will magnifie And bless the Lord with tongue and heart His joyful praises never shall Out of my thankful mouth depart 2 My soul in her preserving Lord Her boasting boldly shall express And humble men shall hear thereof And joyn therein with joyfulness 3 O magnifie the Lord with me We 'll joyntly all exalt his name 4 In all my fears I sought the Lord He heard and sav'd me from the same 5 They that to him did look for help Of light and comfort did partake Their confidence in him did not Their face at all ashamed make 6 This poor man cryed in distress The Lord to him a hearing gave And him from all his troubles did Effectually help and save 7 About all them that fear the Lord Encamped Angels always lye To save and to deliver them From every hurtful enemy 8 O taste and see that God is good Blest are all they that in him trust 9 Fear God ye Saints no hurtful want Befalls the upright walking just 10 Even Lion's young ones hungry are And often want desired food But they that seek the Lord shall not Want any thing that 's truly good 11 Teachable Children come to me My sure and tryed Counsel hear And I will teach you faithfully The true way of God's holy fear 12 What man desireth length of life And his own good doth wisely seek 13 From evil keep thy
PSALM CXI 1 PRaise ye the Lord with my whole heart With joy I will God's praise declare Where upright men assembled be And holy Congregations are 2 The works of God are very great And manifest his glorious might The fruitful study of all them Who do therein place their delight 3 All his work honourable is All glorious steadfast and sure His truth and perfect righteousness Unchang'd for ever do endure 4 His wondrous works he made for man To mind and meditate upon The Lord is very gracious Full he is of compassion 5 To all that do him fear and serve He daily gives convenient food He always true and mindful is His holy Covenant to make good 6 The power of his wondrous works He did unto his people show That heathens land and heritage As his he might on them bestow 7 His hand-work Truth and Judgment are All his Commands are just and sure 8 All done in truth and uprightness They shall from age to age endure 9 His people he redemption sent His Covenant ever is the same Which he commanded which declares To us his holy reverend Name 10 God's fear Wisdom's beginning is Their understanding's sound and sure Who his Commandments truly keep His glorious praise doth still endure PSALM CXII 1 PRaise ye the Lord Blest is that man Who lives in fear as in God's sight To know and practice his Commands Who always greatly doth delight 2 His seed on earth shall be advanc'd The upright Off-spring God will bless 3 His house shall have sufficient store Endless shall be his righteousness 4 In their dark state rejoycing light God to just upright men will raise Gracious and pitiful are such Righteous and true in all their ways 5 A good man's ready to do good And kindly lends to him that needs And he with wise discretion doth Manage affairs and guide his deeds 6 His standing's sure He never shall Be mov'd and brought to misery His precious name shall be preserv'd In sweet and endless memory 7 Whatever evil tidings come He shall not greatly be afraid His steadfast heart by fixed trust Upon the mighty Lord is slay'd 8 His heart is firmly stablished And shall not sink and be dismay'd Till his malignant enemies He sees God's Justice hath repay'd 9 He hath abroad dispers'd his seed And largely given to the poor God shall with honour him advance His righteousness shall ever dure 10 This shall the wicked see and grieve Gnash with his teeth for grief he shall His wealth and he shall melt away His flat'ring hopes shall perish all PSALM CXIII 1 PRaise ye the Lord his servants all Praise our great God with one acoord With joyful hearts and chearful voice Praise the name of the world 's great Lord. 2 Blest be the Lord's renowned name Ever his praise continue shall 3 From East to West through all the world God's Name is to be prais'd of all 4 The Lord in Glory dwells on high And over all the Nations reigns His glory is above the heav'ns No place no limits him contains 5 O who is like to our great God Who from high Glory looketh forth 6 To heav'n and its inhabitants And minds what 's done below on earth 7 He from the dust doth raise the poor And needy from the dunghill brings 8 That he like Princes may them make Even Princes with his people's Kings 9 He to the barren woman doth A numerous family afford A joyful mother maketh her Of many Children Praise the Lord. PSALM CXIV 1 WHen Israel out of Egypt went And Jacob's House by God's strong hand From under those strange Task-masters Whose speech they did not understand 2 Judah he did his Sanctuary And Israel his Dominion make 3 The Sea did see and fled away And Jordan's stream was driven back 4 Like Rams the mountains and like Lambs The little hills skipt to and fro 5 O Sea what made thee thus to flee Jordan why didst thou backward go 6 Ye mountains great what was the cause That made you thus to skip like Rams Ye little hills wherefore was it That you did skip like playing Lambs 7 Tremble O earth before the Lord When Jacob's God his presence shows 8 Which turn'd the Rock to water-pools By whom the flint like fountains flows PSALM CXV 1 NOt unto us Lord not to us But do thou all the glory take To thy great name for thy own truth And for thy saving mercies sake 2 Why should the heathen people say To us where is their mighty God 3 But our God is in heav'n and doth What ever to him seemeth good 4 Their Idols are silver and gold The work of workmen's hands they be 5 They have mouths but they do not speak 6 And eyes have they but do not see Ears have they but they do not hear Noses but smell or savour not 7 Hands feet but handle not nor walk Nor speak they through their mouth or throat 8 Their makers are like them and all Their trust for help on them that build 9 O Israel trust in the Lord He is their only help and shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in God He only is their help and shield 11 You that fear God trust in the Lord Your shield who certain help will yield 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us And he will surely bless us still The house of Israel he will bless Aaron's house also bless he will 13 Both small and great that fear the Lord The Lord will always surely bless 14 You and your Children more and more The Lord will bless and still increase 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who made both all the earth and heav'n 16 The heav'n of heav'ns is his but earth He to the sons of men hath given 17 The dead who down to silence go Do not in dust God's praise record 18 But we henceforth for ever will Bless our great God Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXVI 1 I Love the Lord who did my voice And earnest supplication hear 2 While I have life I 'le call on him Who bow'd to me his gracious ear 3 The sorrows of expected death My flesh and heart did compass round The pains of Hell took hold on me Trouble and grievous pain I found 4 Upon the name of God my help Then did I daily call and say Deliver thou my grieved soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray 5 Our God is merciful and just Yea very gracious is the Lord 6 He saves the meek I was brought low And he did speedy help afford 7 My soul distrust thy God no more Return by faith to him thy Rest Who largely in thy great distress To thee his bounty hath exprest 8 For my afflicted soul from death Safely delivered was by thee Thou didst mine eyes from mourning tears My feet from dangerous falling free 9 Among the living I will walk By faith as still before the Lord 10 When greatly I afflicted was I did believe and spake this word 11
high Let Peace abound on earth below To men Divine benignity Or Glory be to our glorious God Whose dwelling's in the highest heaven Let Peace come down on earth below Love and good will to men be given Or Glory to the Eternal God In heav'n which is his glorious place Let Peace on earth make her abode Let men receive his love and grace The Hymn called the Benedicte of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego Paraphrased Christian Philosophy 1 LEt this great wondrous frame And all God's works therein On which his glorious name Inscrib'd is clearly seen Jehovah bless To magnifie The Lord most high His praise express 2 Ye holy Angels bright Who see Jehovah's face Where his Life Love and Light Make heav'n a glorious place The Lord still praise His Majesty Still magnifie Bless him always 3 Ye heav'ns so high and great In glory which excel The blessed holy seat Where Christ and Angels dwell His praise shew forth Him magnifie More gloriously Than we on earth 4 Ye unseen Powers above Which mortals little know Who under God do move And rule the things below Praise ye God's name As all his will Ye do fulfil Bless ye the same 5 Let the great glorious Sun Earth's mover life and light And the resplendent Moon Which shines to us by night God's Glory show Praise and declare Him whose ye are To us below 6 Ye numerous Stars of light Great Orbs and glorious all Though here to Mortals sight By distance ye seem small Your wondrous frame So great and high Doth magnifie The Lord's great name 7 Ye clouds and showers of rain And earth-refreshing dew Which do its store maintain And all its fruits renew To all mens sense Of us God's care You do declare And providence 8 Ye unseen winds that blow When and where God commands Moving the air below Both over sea and lands The Lord most high Your unknown course And potent force Do magnifie 9 God's wondrous work call'd FIRE Whose substance near and great We know not but admire Its motion light and heat Doth intimate What spirits are God's praise declare And celebrate 10 Winter 's and Summer's course The year 's revolving times Keep still by Divine force In their prescribed lines Each day and hour Do glorifie The Lord most high And praise his power 11 The sharp congealing cold The Frost the Ice and Snow We feel and do behold But not their secrets know These praise the Lord Who doth command Both Sea and Land And all the World 12 The glorious Heav'n-born light Earth's beauty joy and guide Black darkness silent night When men in rest abide Both nights and days Bless our great Lord Obey his word And speak his praise 13 Lightnings and Tempests fierce Make sinful mortals quake Thunders the mountains pierce God makes the earth to shake All these proclaim And dreadfully Do magnifie The Lord's great name 14 In this great fruitful earth Though small to all the rest Where mortals have their birth God's greatness is exprest It s numerous train Doth bless our God and all abroad His praise proclaim 15 Ye mountains vast and tall Even with the cloudy sky Whence all below seem small Which in the Valleys lye You to man's eye The power of God Shew all abroad And magnifie 16 The fields and fruitful ground Each plant and beauteous flower Where God's sweet gifts abound Which shew his love and power All this rich store High praises gives To him that lives For evermore 17 Fountains and pleasant springs Sweet streams that never rest Food health and pleasure brings Refreshing man and beast These always flow Praising God's love Which from above Feeds all below 18 The Ocean deep and wide Is in God's eye and hand And Rivers all that glide To it from every land God's wonders there Which dreadfully Him magnifie To all appear 19 Great Whales dwell in this deep The fish in wondrous store God there doth feed and keep And brings for man to shore Out of man's sight These glorifie The Lord most high And praise his might The fowls that fly in air And sweetly sing on earth God's chore that praise him are And shew his glory forth To our Great King All these rejoyce With chearful voice And to him sing 21 The beasts of divers sorts The wild servile and tame God makes feeds and supports To glorifie his Name To this design'd The Lord they bless His praise express Each in his kind 22 O man to whom all these Thy God hath servants made This God to LOVE and PRAISE Should be thy life and trade Learn and be wise Will only ye The Rebels be And God despise 23 Return man to thy Lord Follow not vanity Trust and obey his word And trust not to a lye He is thy God Now seek his face Obey his grace Prevent his Rod. 24 O ye his chosen flock Brought near him by his love His Church built on the Rock Redeem'd for Joys above Your God adore Your voices raise And sing his praise For evermore 25 Ye sacred Priests of God Whose worship ye attend Whose house is your abode Your days there sweetly spend Unweariedly Spread ye his fame His holy name There sanctifie 26 All ye that serve the Lord Devoted to his will Rul'd by his holy word Trust and obey him still In him rejoyce And magnifie The Lord most high With heart and voice 27 Ye spirits of the just Advanc'd by saving grace Who here in Christ did trust And now behold his face In heav'n above You joyfully There magnifie The God of Love 28 All Saints in heav'n and earth In whom Love's holy fire Kindled in the new birth Towards God doth still aspire Spend life and days Redeem'd for this The work of bliss The Lord to praise 29 With these Lord number me Let love draw up my soul From all its bonds set free Let nothing it controul That I to please And magnifie The Lord most high May never cease 30 One God in Trinity Let heaven and earth adore From all Eternity The same for evermore All Glory 's his Who needing none Himself his own Perfection is The Hymn of St. Ambrose called Te Deum c. 1 MOst Glorious God we here present Our joyful praise to thee The only God the Lord of all Confessing thee to be 2 Th' eternal Father Lord of all Thy works do thee proclaim For all are made to honour thee And glorifie thy name 3 Thee the blest Angels magnifie The Heav'ns and Powers thee praise Cherubs and all the glorious spirits Do cry to thee always 4 Most Holy Holy Holy God The universal Lord Thy present glorious Majesty Fills heaven and all the world 5 The glorify'd Apostles there Praise thee continually With them the blessed Prophets joyn Thy name to magnifie 6 There are the Martyrs noble hosts Employed in thy praise Thy holy Church in heav'n and earth Acknowledge thee always 7 Father in greatness infinite Thy One True Glorious Son The Holy Ghost the
Princes Zebulon And with them also Naphtali's 28 Thy God commands thy strength O God Confirm what thou for us hast wrought 29 For thy house at Jerusalem King's Presents shall to thee be brought 30 Spear-men and people rude rebuke Till all of them submissive are And tribute pay scatter thou them That do delight in strife and war 31 Princes shall then submit to thee And hither come from Egypt lands And Ethiopia to God Shall soon stretch out her subject hands 32 Sing unto God adoring praise O all ye people of the earth Sing praises to the Lord our God With reverence and holy mirth 33 To him that on the heaven of heavens Which was of old doth ride rejoyce His voice he sendeth all abroad It is a mighty dreadful voice 34 Ascribe ye power unto God Who reigns on high o're Israel And his great strength and excellence Doth in the heav'ns in glory dwell 35 Dreadful out of his holy place Is Israel's God who doth afford Unto his people strength and pow'r Blessed therefore be God our Lord. PSALM LXIX 1 SAve me O God for rising floods Unto my fearful soul are come 2 I sink in deep unstable mire Deep waters have me overflown 3 I of my crying weary am My voice is hoarse my throat is dry'd My eyes also do fall while I Do waiting for my God abide 4 More than my hairs of head they be Who causeless hatred to me bear And my injurious enemies That would destroy me mighty are Then I restored that to them Which never taken was by me 5 O God thou know'st my foolishness And my sins are not hid from thee 6 Let not them for my sake be sham'd O Lord of Hosts that wait on thee Nor those that seek thee Israel's God For my own cause confounded be 7 For thy sake I have born reproach And shame hath covered my face 8 I to my brethren strange am grown An Alien to my mother's race 9 Because the zeal did eat me up Which to thy sacred house I bear And the reproaches cast on thee Upon me fallen for thy cause are 10 When I in tears with fasting lay This to my own reproach was turn'd A Proverb to them I became 11 When I in sackcloth cloathed mourn'd 12 The great men that sit in the gate Spake of me all the ill they think And I was made the song of them That are the drinkers of strong drink 13 But Lord in an accepted time My Prayer I send up to thee Lord in thy mercies multitude And in thy saving truth hear me 14 Deliver me out of the mire And me from sinking in it keep Save me from them that do me hate And out of all these waters deep 15 Let not the floods me overflow Nor let the deeps up swallow me And let not the pit's mouth below Upon me buryed closed be 16 Hear me O Lord for thy sure love And kindness is exceeding good Turn thou to me according to Thy tender mercies multitude 17 From thy servant hide not thy face In this my trouble soon attend 18 Draw nigh my soul and it redeem And from mine enemies me defend 19 To thee is my reproach well known My shame and my causeless disgrace My adversaries and their ways Are open all before thy face 20 Reproach hath broke my heart and grief Abounds in me I lookt for some To pity me but there was none True comforters I found not one 21 They gave me also bitter gall For food which they would have me eat They gave me vinegar to drink In scorn when as my thirst was great 22 Let their own Table be their snare Do thou to them in justice make Their welfare and posterity Become a trap themselves to take 23 And let their eyes so darkened be That pleasant light do them forsake And let their weakned Ioyns by thee Be made continually to shake 24 Thy dreadful indignation Pour out upon these wicked men And let thy hot displeasure and Thy heavy wrath take hold on them 25 And let their stately palaces Be left as desolate within Their tents without inhabitants Where these ill men have dwellers bin 26 Because him whom thou didst correct Yet they have persecuted more They talk unto the grief of those Whom thou didst strike and wound before 27 Add thou deserved punishment Unto their hainous wilful sin And to thy saying righteousness Let them not have admission in 28 Out of the book of living men Let them by death be blotted quite And with the just that blessed are Do not their names number and write 29 But I am poor and sorrowful Because of my adversity But let thy saving grace O Lord Yet raise and set me up on high 30 The Name of God I with a song Will praise and honour joyfully And with thanksgiving for his grace The Lord's name I will magnifie 31 This also shall a sacrifice More acceptable to him be Than Bull or Ox with hoof and horns If they were offered by me 32 The meek and humble shall be glad And greatly joy when this they see Your hearts shall live that seek the Lord And ever comfortable be 33 Because the Lord doth hear the poor When they to him do cry and pray And doth not neglect or despise Those that for him in prison lay 34 Let the high heav'ns and spacious earth Unto Jehovah praises give The Ocean deep and every thing Which therein doth but creep and live 35 For God will surely Sion save And Judah's Cities again build That men may them possess and dwell In houses plentifully fill'd 36 And they that are his servants seed Shall be possessors of the same And they shall have their dwelling there Who do sincerely love his name PSALM LXX 1 O God from my distress and fear Do thou vouchsafe to set me free Make hast O Lord do thou afford Thy speedy saving help to me 2 Let them confounded be and sham'd Who do my death seek and conspire Confound them all and turn them back That do my hurt in heart desire 3 Let shame be their reward Let them Fly and be turned back by thee Who triumphing in my distress Do say in scorn Aha to me 4 Let all that truly seek thy face With joy be ever glad in thee Let all that thy salvation love Say still the Lord God praised be 5 But I am poor and weak O God Make hast to me and do not stay Thou art my Saviour and help Help Lord and make no more delay PSALM LXXI 1 IN thee O Lord I put my trust Let me no hurtful shame befal 2 In justice save me from my foes By thee let me escape them all Incline thine ear and save thou me 3 Be thou my strength my rock and fort My dwelling unto which I may For help and refuge still resort My safety is thy own Command My rock and fortress thou wilt be 4 From wicked unjust cruel men Do thou my God deliver me 5 For upon thee
Lord God to whom alone Final revenging doth belong Shew men that Justice is thy work And surely God avengeth wrong 2 Lift up thy self thou Judge of all The proud do thou check and reward 3 How long shall wicked men triumph Even they that do not God regard 4 Shall they still speak false and hard things And their tongues utter cruelty How low shall they triumph and boast Who plot and work iniquity 5 Thy people they in pieces break Thy heritage do they afflict 6 Widows strangers and fatherless They murder or by wrong deject 7 Yet say they God doth not this see Nor doth he it regard and know 8 Ye brutish people understand Ye fools when will ye wiser grow 9 Shall he not hear who made the ear Nor all things see that form'd the eye 10 He that the heathen doth chastise Shall judge and correct righteously He that all knowledge teacheth man What can from him concealed be 11 The Lord knows all the thoughts of man He sees that they are vanity 12 O blessed is the man who is In love chastis'd by thee O Lord And thou effectually dost teach Withal out of thy holy Word 13 That thou may'st give him rest from times Of sad and sharp adversity Until the pit be dig'd for them That still do work iniquity 14 God who corrects will not cast off His flock nor his sure Covenant break Nor his belov'd inheritance Will ever utterly forsake 15 Judgment shall Righteousness restore And Truth â—â— earth return again And all shall follâ—w after it Who upright hearted do remain 16 Who will rise up for me against The wicked doer's cruel band The workers of iniquity Who will against them for me stand 17 Unless the Lord had been my help I had dwelt quickly in the grave 18 But whâ—â— I said My foot doth slip O Lord my mercy did me save 19 And in the croud and multitude Of troubling thoughts that in me roul Within me thy sweet comforts dwell And do delight my troubled soul 20 Shall the Throne of iniquity Have any fellowship with thee Which frameth mischief by a Law And pleads its own unjust decree 21 They all conspire against the lives Of the most righteous men and good And by their Law ujustly do Condemn and shed the guiltless blood 22 But God alone against them all Is my secure defence and stay The Lord my God my refuge is My rock of strength and trust alway 23 The Lord our God shall bring on them Their own works of iniquity In their own sin he 'll cut them off The Lord he 'll do it certainly PSALM XCV 1 O Come let us unto the Lord Lift up aloud our singing voice And to our Rock and Saviour Make a triumphant joyful noise 2 Before his presence let us all Appear with joy and thankfulness And with the joyful noise of Psalms The praise of our great God express 3 Great is the Lord a mighty King Above all pow'rs and Gods alone 4 The earth 's great depths are in his hands The mountains strength is all his own 5 The Sea and all therein is his It 's he that did it make and form The dry land also he did make And it replenish and adorn 6 O come and let us worship him And to him let us bow down all And on our knees before the Lord Our maker let us humbly fall 7 He only is our God and we The sheep of his own pasture are The flock which his own hand doth lead Of whom he taketh special care 8 To day if you will hear his voice Then longer harden not your hearts As you did tempt and strive with God When led and try'd in the desart 9 Your fathers did me tempt and prove When they my wondrous works did see 10 Even forty years that sinful race Often provok'd and grieved me 11 I said This peoples hearts do err My will and ways they will not know To whom in wrath I sware that to My promis'd Rest they should not go PSALM XCVI 1 O Sing ye now unto the Lord New framed songs with joy and mirth Sing praises to the Lord our God All people of the spacious earth 2 Sing to the Lord and bless his name And daily his salvation show 3 His Glory to the heathen tell Make all the world his wonders know 4 For great and glorious is our God And greatly to be prais'd is he And he above all Gods and Powers By all must fear'd and praised be 5 The feigned Gods are Idols all Which the blind heathen Nations fear It is our God alone by whom The heav'ns and all created were 6 In honour and in majesty His holy presence doth excel And strength with glorious beauty in His Sanctuary always dwell 7 All nations that on earth do dwell Ye people of each land and tribe Give glory to our glorious Lord Glory and strength to him ascribe 8 Give to God's Name the glory due To 's Courts come and your off'ring bring 9 In splendid beauteous holiness Worship the Lord our supream King Fear ye before him all the earth 10 Tell heathens all the Lord doth reign The world shall be established And shall not be remov'd again He all men righteously shall judge 11 Let earth be glad and heav'n rejoyce The great sea and its fulness all Praise God even with its roaring noise 12 Let the fields prosper and rejoyce And all that 's on and from the earth The woods and all the trees shall sing And flourish as it were with mirth 13 Before the Lord For lo he comes He comes the earth to judge and try The world he 'll judge with righteousness And people all with equity PSALM XCVII 1 GOd reigneth Let the earth be glad And let the Isles rejoyce each one 2 Darkness and clouds encompass him In truth and judgment dwells his throne 3 Fire goes before him and his foes It wasts and burns up round about 4 His Lightnings lightened the world The earth it saw and shook throughout 5 And at the presence of the Lord The mighty hills like wax did melt When of the Lord of all the earth The dreadful presence they had felt 6 The glorious heav'ns his righteousness To all do manifestly show His Glory so resplendent is That all men willing may it know 7 They that serve graven Images Sham'd and confounded all shall be And they that of their Idols boast All called Gods him worship ye 8 Sion heard this and did rejoyce And Judah's daughters all were glad For all thy judgments Lord of which The sight or notice they have had 9 For thou the glorious Lord art high Extoll'd above the earth by far All that are called Gods by men Thy creatures and thy subjects are 10 Hate evil ye that fear the Lord The souls of Saints that do him serve He keepeth out of wicked hands And will them all save and preserve 11 For righteous men though now in grief Future light is prepar'd and
Eternally 15 But overwhelm'd and lost Was proud King Pharaoh With all his mighty Host And Chariots there also For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 16 To him who powerfully His chosen Israel led Even through the desart dry And in that place them fed For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 17 To him great Kings who smote For his grace hath no bound 18 Who slew and spared not Kings famous and renown'd For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 19 Sihon the Amorites King For his grace lafteth ever 20 Og also who did reign The land of Bashan over For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 21 Their land by lot he gave For his grace faileth never That Israel might it have An heritage for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 22 Who hath remembred us 23 In all our low estate 24 And us delivered From foes that did us hate For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally 25 Who to all flesh gives food For his grace faileth never 26 Give thanks to God most good To God of Gods for ever For certainly His mercies dure Most firm and sure Eternally The same By W. Barton 1 O Render thanks to God For he is very good His mercies sure do still endure And have for ever stood 2 The God of Gods proclaim With praises to his name His mercies sure do still endure Eternally the same 3 The Lord of Lords most high With praises magnifie His mercies sure do still endure To all eternity 4 To him who wrought alone Great wonders many a one His mercies sure do still endure To ages all made known 5 To him who skilfully Compos'd the heavens high His mercies sure do still endure To perpetuity 6 That did the earth extend The seas to comprehend His mercies sure do still endure And never have an end 7 To him whose power divine Did make great Lights to shine His mercies sure do still endure Not subject to decline 8 The Sun to rule and sway The motions of the day His mercies sure do still endure And never fall away 9 The Moon and Stars of light He made to rule the night His mercies sure do still endure For they are infinite 10 To him your praise devote Who Egypt's first-born smote His mercies sure do still endure Of everlasting note 11 Who from among them all Brought Israel out of thrall His mercies sure do still endure And are perpetual 12 With strong out-stretched hand And arm at his command His mercies sure do still endure And shall for ever stand 13 To him that did divide The Red-sea on each side His mercies sure do still endure And evermore abide 14 And Israel did transmit Even through the midst of it His mercies sure do still endure And never fail a whit 15 But on the Red-sea coast Smote Pharaoh and his host His mercies sure do still endure Unto the uttermost 16 To him that led his own Through desarts all unknown His mercies sure do still endure As permanent alone 17 To him that smote and slew Great Kings and famous too His mercies sure do still endure And ever so shall do 18 King Sihon he did smiâ—e That Giant Amorite His mercies sure do still endure Continuing day and night 19 And Og Bashan's great King He did to ruin bring His mercies sure do still endure An unexhausted spring 20 He did their land engage To be an heritage His mercies sure do still endure Out-wearing time and age 21 Their heritage befel His servant Israel His mercies sure do still endure Times constant parallel 22 Who thought on our estate When low and desolate His mercies sure do still endure And bear eternal date 23 Redeeming us from those That were our mortal foes His mercies sure do still endure A Spring that overflows 24 Who still provideth meat Whereof all flesh may eat His mercies sure do still endure For ever full and great 25 The God of heav'n therefore With thankful hearts adore His mercies sure do still endure Henceforth for evermore PSALM CXXXVII 1 IN Babylon's Captivity We sadly by their rivers sate When Sion we remembred there We wept as men disconsolate 2 On Willows in the midst thereof We hang'd our silent Harps unstrung For they who had us Captives made In scorn requir'd of us a Song 3 They that had made our Country wast To make sport of us talked thus Now sing us one of Sion's songs Said they insulting over us 4 How shall we sing God's sacred songs Thus Captives in a foreign land 5 If I Jerusalem forget Let Musick skill forsake my hand 6 Let my tongue dumb cleave to my jaws If belov'd Sion I forget And if above my chiefest joy I do not Sion always set 7 Remember Edom's Off-spring Lord Who in thy peoples woful day Cry'd Rase it Rase it to the ground This hated City level lay 8 O Babylon to destruction judg'd That conquering hand shall honour'd be Which just as thou hast used us A just reward shall give to thee 9 That Victor's hand shall honour'd be That fiercely takes thy little ones Not we but foes in bloody war Will dash them dead against the stones PSALM CXXXVIII 1 WIth my whole heart I will thee praise Before the Gods thy praise I 'le sing 2 I 'le tow'rd thy holy Temple bow And praise thy name O glorious King Even for thy loving kindness great And for thy holy truth O Lord Above all thy instructing name Thou hast advanc'd thy sacred word 3 In my sad days thou answered'st me When I to thee did pray and cry And thou my feeble soul with strength Didst kindly strenghthen inwardly 4 All Kings on earth shall praise the Lord When they shall hear and know thy word And singing shall walk in thy ways So great 's thy fame and glory Lord. 5 The God that 's infinitely high The lowly men he doth respect But knows the proud as afar off And with disdain doth them reject 6 Though I in midst of trouble walk Thou wil t revive me and extend Thy hand against mine enemies wrath And thy right hand shall me defend 7 All that my welfare doth concern The Lord at last will perfect make O Lord thy mercy endless is Do not thy handy work forsake PSALM CXXXIX 1 O Lord thou hast me search'd and known 2 Thou know'st my daily sitting down And mine uprising All my thoughts Even a far off to thee are known 3 Thou fift'st and compassest my path And seest me when down I lye And art with all my works and ways Always acquainted perfectly 4 No word is in my tongue O Lord But it is fully known to thee 5 Thou hast beset me round about And thou hast laid thy hand on me 6 This knowledge high's above my reach It is too wonderful for me 7 Whither shall I go from thy face Or whither from thy spirit flee 8