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The blessedness of benevolence
Author: Barbauld Appears in 158 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41 First Line: Blest is the man, whose softening heart Topics: Alms; Benevolence; Fellowship; Liberality; Peace-makers
The blessedness of benevolence
The Joy of the Lord
Author: Alliene G. Vale, fl. 1971 Meter: Irregular Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41:12 First Line: The joy of the Lord is my strength Topics: God Love and Mercy; Jesus Christ His Love and Mercy Used With Tune: JOY OF THE LORD
The Joy of the Lord
The Reward of the Compassionate
Appears in 8 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41 First Line: Blest he who wisely helps the poor Topics: Afflictions For sin; Afflictions Promises for; Almsgiving; Blessedness Of God's Chosen; Christ Betrayal of; Christian Charity; Christians Conflicts of; Deliverance From Sickness; Doxology; Enemies Restrained; Heart Evil, Hard, and Stubborn; Liberality; Love to man; Mercy of God Prayer for the; The Poor Duty Towards; Prayer Confession in; Prayer confidence in; The Righteous Reward of; Sickness Prayers under; Sickness Recovery from; Vanity Of Sinners; The Wicked Character of Used With Tune: [Blest he who wisely helps the poor]
The Reward of the Compassionate
The Friend of the Poor
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41 First Line: How blest the man who thoughtfully Lyrics: 1 How blest the man who thoughtfully
The poor and weak befriends;
Deliv'rance in the evil day
To him Jehovah sends.
2 The Lord will keep him, guard his life,
On earth he shall be blest;
The Lord will not surrender him
By foes to be distressed.
3 Upon the bed of suffering
Jehovah will sustain,
And in his sickness God will soothe
The weariness and pain.
4 O Lord, to Thee my cry ascends,
Let me Thy mercy see;
Heal Thou my soul, for I have sinned,
I have offended Thee.
5 My enemies against me speak,
And they my life have scorned;
They wish my name to pass away,
Unhonored and unmourned.
6 My foe, deceitful, visits me,
By seeming kindness led,
His heart intent on gathering
Some hurtful news to spread.
7 My foes, together whispering,
Their evil plans devise;
Disease, they say, cleaves fast to him,
Laid low, he shall not rise.
8 Yea, he who was my chosen friend,
In whom I put my trust,
Who ate my bread, now turns in wrath
To crush me in the dust.
9 Do Thou, Jehovah, show me grace,
And raise me up again,
That I with justice may requite
These base and wicked men.
10 By this I know assuredly
That I am loved by Thee,
Because my foe does not exult
In triumph over me.
11 And as for me, in uprightness
Thou dost uphold me well,
And settest me before Thy face
For evermore to dwell.
12 Blest be Jehovah, Israel's God
For evermore. Amen.
Let age to age eternally
Repeat His praise. Amen. Topics: Afflictions For sin; Afflictions Promises for; Almsgiving; Blessedness Of Those Chosen of God; Christian Charity; Christ Betrayal of; Christians Conflicts of; Deliverance From Sickness; Doxologies; Enemies Restrained; Liberality; Love For Man; Mercy of God Prayer for; Pity For Others; The Poor Duty Towards; Prayer Confession in; Prayer confidence in; The Christian's Reward; Sickness Prayers under; Sickness Recovery from; The Wicked Character of Used With Tune: SOUTHPORT
The Friend of the Poor
To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David
Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41 First Line: O bless'd is he that wisely doth Lyrics: 1 O bless'd is he that wisely doth
Unto the poor attend:
The Lord will him deliverance
In time of trouble send.
2 The Lord will keep and make him live,
On Earth he blest shall be;
And give him not unto the will
Of his sore enemy.
3 Upon the bed of languishing
The Lord will strengthen him;
Thou also wilt make all his bed
Within his sickness time:
4 I said, Jehovah unto me
Thy tender grace I crave;
Heal thou my soul, because that I
Against thee sinned have.
5 Those men that be mine enemies,
With evil me defame;
When will the time come he shall die,
And perish shall his name?
6 And if he come to visit me,
He speaks vain lies in heart:
He heapeth evils, then he goes
Abroad them to impart.
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7 All that me hate, against me they
Together whisper still:
Against me they imagine do
To me malicious ill.
8 Thus do they say, some ill disease
Unto him cleaveth sore:
And seeing now he lyeth down,
He shall rise up no more.
9 Moreover my familiar friend,
On whom my trust I set,
His heel against me lifted up,
Who of my bread did eat.
10 But Lord me pity and me raise,
That I may them requite,
11 By this I know assuredly,
In me thou dost delight.
For o'er me triumphs not my foe,
12 And me, thou dost me stay
In mine integrity, and sett'st
Me thee before for aye.
13 Blest hath Jehovah, Israel's God,
From everlasting been,
And unto everlasting is,
Amen, yea, and Amen.
To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David
'Tis a duty Christians owe
Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41 Lyrics: 1 'Tis a duty Christians owe
To love and serve their fellow-men,
To better service do we know,
Our peace of conscience to maintain.
2 God's perfect law is not obey'd,
Nor yet the least command fulfill;
The best that can be done or said
Leaves men but failing creatures still.
3 But O the soul! from God inspir'd
With grace divine and heav'nly love,
Hath all what e'er the law requir'd,
Completed by the hand above.
4 That law is written in the heart,
Which acts and moves by love and grace:
The mind is bound in every part
To God, and all his righteous ways.
5 This law exceeds all other laws,
No better heav'n to man could give;
This law is love, and moves and draws
The mind to God, in him to live. Topics: Fourth Sunday after Epiphany
'Tis a duty Christians owe
The man is blest that doth provide
Author: T. S. Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 41 Lyrics: 1 The man is blest that doth provide
for such as needy be;
For in the season perilous
the Lord will set him free;
2 And he will keep him safe, and make
him happy in the land,
And not deliver him into
his enemy's strong hand;
3 And from his bed of languishing
the Lord will him restore;
For thou, O Lord, wilt turn to health
his sickness and his sore.
4 Then in my sickness thus said I,
Have mercy, Lord, on me,
And heal my soul which grieved is
that I offended thee.
5 My foes did wish me ill in heart,
and thus of me did say,
When shall he die, that so his name
may perish quite away?
6 And when they come to visit me,
then ask if I do well;
But in their hearts they mischief hatch,
and then abroad it tell.
7 All they that hate me do conspire
against me craftily,
And still devise how to procure
my hurt and misery.
8 Some grievous sin hath brought him to
this sickness, say they plain;
He is so low, that without doubt
he cannot rise again.
9 The man also that I did trust,
with me did use deceit;
Who at my table did eat bread,
the same for me laid wait.
10 Have mercy, Lord, on me therefore,
and let me be preserv'd,
That I may render unto them
the things they have deserv'd.
11 By this I know assuredly,
I am belov'd of thee,
Because my foes no power have
to triumph over me;
12 But in my right thou hast me kept,
and it maintained well,
And in thy presence place assign'd
where I shall ever dwell.
13 The Lord, the God of Israel,
be praised evermore;
E'en so be it, Lord, will I say,
praise ye the Lord therefore.
The man is blest that doth provide
Thrice bless'd the Man, whose thoughtful Mind
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 41 Lyrics: 1. Thrice bless'd the Man, whose thoughtful Mind
The Needy doth regard;
With Safety in the evil Day,
The Lord will him reward.
2. From Dangers he'll preserve his Life,
On Earth he bless'd shall be;
And none of all his spiteful Foes,
On him, their Will shall see.
3. Upon his Bed of Languishing,
The Lord will Strength supply;
In Sickness kindly turn his Bed,
That he may easy ly.
4. "O Lord, be merciful to me,
(I thus myself express'd)
"And heal my wounded Soul, for I
"Against Thee have transgress'd.
5. Mine Enemies, maliciously,
With Slanders me defame;
In Wrath, they say, "When shall he die,
"And perish shall his Name?
6. If e'er he comes to visit me,
His Speech is cloath'd with Fraud;
He gathers Evil to his Heart,
Then spreads it all abroad.
Second Part
7. Who hate me whisper evil Things,
And do my Hurt devise.
8. "His Crimes have caught him fast,(say they)
"He's fall'n, no more to rise.
9. Yea, my familiar Friend, from whom
I nothing could conceal;
Who ate my Bread, yet basely has
Against me lift his Heel.
10. But thou, O Lord, be merciful,
To me, I humbly pray;
And raise me up, that I their Crimes,
With Justice, may repay.
11. That me thou favour'st as thou said'st
By this I surely know;
Because to triumph over me,
Thou suffer'st not my Foe.
12. For, as for me, thou dost uphold
Me, in mine Innocence
Thou settest me before thy Face,
Art ever my Defence.
13. The Lord, the God of Isr'el's House,
Be bless'd by Sons of Men,
From Age to Age, till Time's no more.
Amen! O Lord, Amen!
Thrice bless'd the Man, whose thoughtful Mind
