2 "My life is spent with grief," I cried,
My years consumed in groans,
My strength decays, mine eyes are dried,
And sorrow wastes my bones."
3 Among mine enemies my name
A proverb vile was grown,
While to my neighbours I became
Forgotten and unknown.
4 Slander and fear on every side
Seized and beset me round:
I to thy throne of grace applied
And speedy rescue found.
5 How great deliverance thou hast wrought Before the sons of men?
The lying lips to silence brought,
And made their boasting vain!
6 Thy children from the strife of tongues
Shall thy pavilion hide,
Guard them from infamy and wrongs,
And crush the sons of pride.
7 Within thy sacred presence, Lord,
Let me for ever dwell;
No fenced city, walled and barred,
Secures a saint so well.
PSALM 32. FIRST PART. S. M.
OH blessed souls are they
Whose sins are covered o'er;
Divinely blest, to whom the Lord
Imputes their guilt no more.
2 They mourn their follies past,
And keep their hearts with care;
Their lips and lives without deceit
Shall prove their faith sincere.
3 While I concealed my guilt,
I felt the festering wound,
Till I confessed my sins to thee,
And ready pardon found.
4 Let sinners learn to pray,
Let saints keep near the throne;
Our help in times of deep distress,
Is found in God alone.
PSALM 32. SECOND PART. L. M.
LEST is the man, for ever blest,
Whose guilt is pardoned by his God,
Whose sins with sorrow are confessed,
And covered with his Saviour's blood.
2 Before his judgment seat, the Lord
No more permits his crimes to rise;
He pleads no merit of reward,
And not on works, but grace, relies.
3 From guile his heart and lips are free,
His humble joy, his holy fear,
With deep repentance well agree,
And join to prove his faith sincere.
4 How glorious is that righteousness
That hides and cancels all his sins!
While a bright evidence of grace
Through all his life appears and shines.
PSALM 33. FIRST PART. C. M.
EJOICE, ye righteous, in the Lord,
This work belongs to you:
Sing of his name, his ways, his word,
How holy, just, and true!
2 His mercy and his righteousness
Let heaven and earth proclaim;
His works of nature, and of grace,
Reveal his wondrous name.
3 His word, with energy divine,
Those heavenly arches spread,
Bade starry hosts around them shine,
And light the heavens pervade.
4 He taught the swelling waves to flow
To their appointed deep;
Bade raging seas their limits know,
And still their station keep.
5 Ye tenants of the spacious earth,
With fear before him stand;
He spake, and nature took its birth,
And rests on his command.
6 He scorns the angry nations' rage,
And breaks their vain designs;
His counsel stands through every age,
And in full glory shines.
PSALM 33. SECOND PART. P. M.
E holy souls in God rejoice,
Your Maker's praise becomes your voice, Great is your theme, your songs be new; Sing of his name, his word, his ways, His works of nature and of grace,
How wise and holy, just and true!
2 Behold, to earth's remotest ends,
His goodness flows, his truth extends;
His power the heavenly arches spread;
His word, with energy divine,
Bade starry hosts around them shine,
And light the circling heavens pervade.
3 His hand collects the flowing seas;
Those watery treasures know their place,
And fill the store-house of the deep:
He spake, and gave all nature birth;
And fires, and seas, and heaven, and earth,
His everlasting orders keep.
4 Let mortals tremble and adore A God of such resistless power,
Nor dare indulge their feeble rage:
Vain are your thoughts, and weak your hands, But his eternal counsel stands,
And rules the world from age to age.
PSALM 34. FIRST PART. C. M.
HROUGH all the changing scenes of life,
In trouble and in joy,
The praises of my God shall still
My heart and tongue employ.
2 My soul shall make her boast in him,
And celebrate his fame;
Come magnify the Lord with me,
With me exalt his name.
3 The hosts of God encamp around
The dwellings of the just;
Deliverance he affords to all
Who on his succour trust.
4 O! make but trial of his love;
Experience will decide,
How blest they are, and only they,
Who in his truth confide.
5 Fear him, ye saints; and you will then
Have nothing else to fear;
Come make his service your delight;
He'll make your wants his care.
PSALM 34. SECOND PART. L. M.
LORD, I will bless thee all my days,
Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue: My soul shall glory in thy grace, While saints rejoice to hear the song. 2 Come magnify the Lord with me, Let every heart exalt his name;
I sought th' eternal God, and he Has not exposed my hope to shame. 3 I told him all my secret grief, My secret groaning reached his ears: He gave my inward pains relief, And calmed the tumult of my fears. 4 To him the poor their eyes,
With heavenly joy their faces shine;
A beam of mercy from the skies
Fills them with light and love divine.
5 His holy angels pitch their tents
Around the men that serve the Lord;
Oh fear and love him, all his saints,
Taste of his grace, and trust his word.
6 The wild young lions, pinched with pain
And hunger, roar through all the wood;
But none shall seek the Lord in vain,
Nor want supplies of real good.
PSALM 34. THIRD PART. L. M.
CHILDREN, in years and knowledge
Your parents' hope, your parents' joy,
Attend the counsels of my tongue,
Let pious thoughts your minds employ.
2 If you desire a length of days,
And peace to crown your mortal state,
Restrain your feet from impious ways,
Your lips from slander and deceit.
3 The eyes of God regard his saints,
His ears are open to their cries;
He sets his frowning face against
The sons of violence and lies.
4 To humble souls and broken hearts
God with his grace is ever nigh;
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