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I waited for the Lord my God

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 65 hymnals Lyrics: 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 blessèd are all they whose trust upon the Lord relies; respecting not the proud, nor such as turn aside to lies. Topics: Music and Song; Salvation and Redemption; Trust Scripture: Psalm 40:1-4 Used With Tune: BALLERMA Text Sources: The Scottish Psalter, 1929

Hail, Sacred Truth!

Author: John Buttress Appears in 98 hymnals First Line: Hail, sacred Truth! whose piercing rays Lyrics: 1 Hail, sacred Truth! whose piercing rays Dispel the shades of night; Diffusing o’er the mental world The healing beams of light. 2 Thy Word, O Lord, with friendly aid, Restores our wand’ring feet, Converts the sorrows of the mind To joys divinely sweet. 3 O send Thy light and truth abroad In all their radiant blaze, And bid th’admiring world adore Thy glories of Thy grace. Used With Tune: BALLERMA Text Sources: Gospel Mag., 1778, p. 55