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Psalm 69 Part 1
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 133 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 First Line: Deep in our hearts let us record Lyrics:
Deep in our hearts let us record
The deeper sorrows of our Lord;
Behold the rising billows roll,
To overwhelm his holy soul.
In long complaints he spends his breath,
While hosts of hell, and powers of death,
And all the sons of malice, join
To execute their cursed design.
Yet, gracious God, thy power and love
Has made the curse a blessing prove;
Those dreadful suff'rings of thy Son
Atoned for sins which we had done.
The pangs of our expiring Lord
The honors of thy law restored;
His sorrows made thy justice known,
And paid for follies not his own.
O for his sake our guilt forgive,
And let the mourning sinner live;
The Lord will hear us in his name,
Nor shall our hope be turned to shame.
Topics: Christ his sufferings and kingdom; Exaltation of Christ to the kingdom; Sufferings and kingdom of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Sacrifice; Blood of Christ cleansing from sin; Christ his obedience and death; Christ his sufferings for our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation; God glorified, and sinners saved; Salvation by Christ
Psalm 69 Part 1
Psalm 69 Part 3
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 70 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 First Line: Father, I sing thy wondrous grace Lyrics:
Father, I sing thy wondrous grace,
I bless my Savior's name;
He bought salvation for the poor,
And bore the sinner's shame.
His deep distress has raised us high;
His duty and his zeal
Fulfilled the law which mortals broke,
And finished all thy will.
His dying groans, his living songs,
Shall better please my God
Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound,
Than goat's or bullock's blood.
This shall his humble followers see,
And set their hearts at rest
They by his death draw near to thee,
And live for ever blest.
Let heav'n and all that dwell on high
To God their voices raise,
While lands and seas assist the sky,
And join t' advance the praise.
Zion is thine, most holy God,
Thy Son shall bless her gates;
And glory purchased by his blood
For thy own Isr'el waits.
Topics: Christ his sufferings and kingdom; Exaltation of Christ to the kingdom; Sufferings and kingdom of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Sacrifice; Blood of Christ cleansing from sin; Christ his obedience and death; Christ his sufferings for our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation; God glorified, and sinners saved; Salvation by Christ
Psalm 69 Part 3
Psalm 69 Part 1
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 37 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:1-14 First Line: Save me, O God, the swelling floods Lyrics:
"Save me, O God, the swelling floods
Break in upon my soul;
I sink, and sorrows o'er my head
Like mighty waters roll.
"I cry till all my voice be gone,
In tears I waste the day:
My God, behold my longing eyes,
And shorten thy delay.
"They hate my soul without a cause,
And still their number grows
More than the hairs around my head,
And mighty are my foes.
"'Twas then I paid that dreadful debt
That men could never pay,
And gave those honors to thy law
Which sinners took away."
Thus in the great Messiah's name,
The royal prophet mourns;
Thus he awakes our hearts to grief,
And gives us joy by turns.
"Now shall the saints rejoice, and find
Salvation in my name;
For I have borne their heavy load
Of sorrow, pain, and shame.
"Grief, like a garment, clothed me round,
And sackcloth was my dress,
While I procured for naked souls
A robe of righteousness.
"Amongst my brethren and the Jews
I like a stranger stood,
And bore their vile reproach, to bring
The Gentiles near to God.
"I came in sinful mortals' stead,
To do my Father's will;
Yet when I cleansed my Father's house,
They scandalized my zeal.
"My fasting and my holy groans
Were made the drunkard's song;
But God, from his celestial throne,
Heard my complaining tongue.
"He saved me from the dreadful deep,
Nor let my soul be drowned;
He raised and fixed my sinking feet
On well-established ground.
"'Twas in a most accepted hour
My prayer arose on high;
And for my sake my God shall hear
The dying sinner's cry.
Topics: Christ his sufferings and kingdom; Exaltation of Christ to the kingdom; Sufferings and kingdom of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Sacrifice; Blood of Christ cleansing from sin; Christ his obedience and death; Christ his sufferings for our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation; God glorified, and sinners saved; Salvation by Christ
Psalm 69 Part 1
Psalm 69 Part 2
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 29 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:14-21 First Line: Now let our lips with holy fear Lyrics:
Now let our lips with holy fear
And mournful pleasure sing
The suff'rings of our great High Priest,
The sorrows of our King.
He sinks in floods of deep distress;
How high the waters rise!
While to his heav'nly Father's ear
He sends perpetual cries.
"Hear me, O Lord, and save thy Son,
Nor hide thy shining face;
Why should thy fav'rite look like one
Forsaken of thy grace?
"With rage they persecute the man
That groans beneath thy wound,
While for a sacrifice I pour
My life upon the ground.
"They tread my honor to the dust,
And laugh when I complain;
Their sharp insulting slanders add
Fresh anguish to my pain.
"All my reproach is known to thee,
The scandal and the shame;
Reproach has broke my bleeding heart,
And lies defiled my name.
"I looked for pity, but in vain;
My kindred are my grief:
I ask my friends for comfort round,
But meet with no relief.
"With vinegar they mock my thirst,
They give me gall for food;
And sporting with my dying groans,
They triumph in my blood.
"Shine into my distressed soul,
Let thy compassions save;
And though my flesh sink down to death,
Redeem it from the grave.
"I shall arise to praise thy name,
Shall reign in worlds unknown;
And thy salvation, O my God,
Shall seat me on thy throne."
Topics: Christ his sufferings and kingdom; Exaltation of Christ to the kingdom; Sufferings and kingdom of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Sacrifice; Blood of Christ cleansing from sin; Christ his obedience and death; Christ his sufferings for our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation; God glorified, and sinners saved; Salvation by Christ
Psalm 69 Part 2
Psalm 69 Part 2
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 32 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:7-24 First Line: 'Twas for thy sake, eternal God Lyrics:
'Twas for thy sake, eternal God,
Thy Son sustained that heavy load
Of base reproach and sore disgrace,
And shame defiled his sacred face.
The Jews, his brethren and his kin,
Abused the Man that checked their sin;
While he fulfilled thy holy laws,
They hate him, but without a cause.
["My Father's house," said he, "was made
A place for worship, not for trade:"
Then scatt'ring all their gold and brass
He scourged the merchants from the place.]
[Zeal for the temple of his God
Consumed his life, exposed his blood;
Reproaches at thy glory thrown
He felt, and mourned them as his own.]
[His friends forsook, his followers fled,
While foes and arms surround his head;
They curse him with a sland'rous tongue,
And the false judge maintains the wrong.]
His life they load with hateful lies,
And charge his lips with blasphemies;
They nail him to the shameful tree:
There hung the Man that died for me.
[Wretches with hearts as hard as stones
Insult his piety and groans;
Gall was the food they gave him there,
And mocked his thirst with vinegar.]
But God beheld, and from his throne
Marks out the men that hate his Son;
The hand that raised him from the dead,
Shall pour the vengeance on their head.
Topics: Christ his sufferings and kingdom; Exaltation of Christ to the kingdom; Sufferings and kingdom of Christ; Christ his death and resurrection; Death and resurrection of Christ; Death and sufferings of Christ; Sacrifice; Blood of Christ cleansing from sin; Christ his obedience and death; Christ his sufferings for our salvation; Glory of God in our salvation; God glorified, and sinners saved; Salvation by Christ
Psalm 69 Part 2
Thy Loving-kindness, Lord is Good and Free
Meter: 10.10.10.10 Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:16-36 First Line: Thy loving-kindness, Lord, is good and free Lyrics: 1 Thy loving-kindness, Lord, is good and free:
in tender mercy turn thou unto me;
hide not thy face from me in my distress,
in mercy hear my pray'r, thy servant bless.
2 Needy and sorrowful, to thee I cry;
let thy salvation set my soul on high;
then I will sing and praise thy holy name;
my thankful song thy mercy shall proclaim.
3 With joy the meek shall see my soul restored;
your heart shall live, ye saints that seek the Lord;
he helps the needy and regards their cries,
those in distress the Lord will not despise.
4 Let heav'n above his grace and glory tell;
let earth and sea and all that in them dwell;
salvation to his people God will give,
and they that love his name with him shall live.
Topics: The Christian Life Tribulation and Suffering; Christians Example of; God Love and Grace of Used With Tune: ELLERS Text Sources: The Psalter, 1912
Thy Loving-kindness, Lord is Good and Free
Save me O God from Waves that roll
Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 Lyrics: 1 Save me, O God, from Waves that roll,
And press to overwhelm my Soul.
2 With painful Steps in Mire I tread,
And Deluges o'erflow my Head.
3 With restless Cries my Spirits faint;
My Voice is hoarse with long Complaint;
My Sight decays with tedious Pain,
Whilst for my God i wait in vain.
4 My Hairs, tho' num'rous, are but few,
Compar'd with Foes that me pursue
With groundless Hate, grown now of Might,
To execute their lawless Spite:
Thy force me, guiltless, to resign,
As Rapine, what by Right was mine.
5 Thou, Lord, my Innocence dost see,
Nor are my Sins conceal'd from Thee.
6 Lord God of Hosts, take timely Care,
Lest, for my sake, thy Saints despair:
7 Since I have suffer'd for thy Name
Reproach, and hide my Face in Shame;
8 A Stranger to my Country grown,
Nor to my nearest Kindred known;
A Foreigner, expos'd to Scorn
By Brethren of my Mother born.
9 For Zeal to thy lov'd House and Name
Consumes me like devouring Flame;
Concern'd at their Affronts to Thee,
More than at Slanders cast on me.
10 My very Tears and Abstinence
They construe in a spiteful Sense.
11 When cloath'd with Sackcloth for their sake,
They me their common Proverb make.
12 Their Judges make my Wrongs their Jest,
Those Wrongs they ought to have redress'd.
How should I then expect to be
From Libels of lewd Drunkards free?
13 But, Lord, to Thee I will repair
For Help, with humble, timely Pray'r:
Relieve me from thy Mercy's Store:
Display thy Truth's preserving Pow'r.
14 From threat'ning Dangers me relieve,
And from the Mire my Feet retrieve;
From spiteful Foes in Safety keep,
15 Controul the Deluge, ere it spread,
And roll its Waves above my Head;
Nor deep Destruction's yawning Pit
To close her Jaws on me permit.
16 Lord, hear the humble Pray'r I make,
For thy transcending Goodness' sake;
Relieve thy Supplicant once more
From thy abounding Mercy's Store.
17 Nor from thy Servant hid thy Face;
Make haste; for desp'rate is my Case;
18 Thy timely Succour interpose,
And shield me from remorsless Foes.
19 Thou know'st what Infamy and Scorn
I from my Enemies have borne;
Nor can their close-dissembled Spite,
Or darkest Plots, escape thy Sight.
20 Reproach and Grief have broke my Heart:
I look'd for some to take my Part,
To pity or relieve my Pain;
But look'd, alas! for both in vain.
21 With Hunger pin'd, for Food I call;
Instead of Food, they give me Gall;
And when with Thirst my Spirits sink,
They give me Vinegar to drink.
22 Their Table therefore to their Health
Shall prove a Snare, a Trap their Wealth;
23 Perpetual Darkness seize their Eyes;
And sudden Blasts their Hopes surprise.
24 On them Thou shalt thy Fury pour,
'Till thy fierce Wrath their Race devour;
25 And make their House a dismal Cell,
Where none will e'er vouchsafe to dwell.
26 For new Afflictions they procur'd
For him who had thy Stripes endur'd;
And made the wounds thy Scourge had torn
To blend afreash with sharper Scorn.
27 Sin shall to Sin their Steps betray,
Till they to Truth have lost the Way.
28 From Life thou shalt exclude their Soul,
Nor with the Just their Names inrol.
29 But me, how'er distress'd and poor,
Thy strong Salvation shalt restore;
30 Thy Pow'r with Songs I'll then proclaim,
And celebrate with Thanks thy Name.
31 Our God shall this more highly prize,
Than Herds or Flocks in Sacrifice:
32 Which humble Saints with Joy shall see,
And hope for like Redress with me.
33 For God regards the Poor's Complaint;
Sets Pris'ners free from close Restraint.
34 Let Heav'n, Earth, Sea, their voices raise,
And all the world resound His Praise.
35 For God will Sion's Walls erect;
Fair Judah's Cities He'll protect;
Till all her scatter'd Sons repair
To undisturb'd Possession there.
36 This Blessing they shall, at their Death,
To their religious Heirs bequeath;
And they to endless Ages more,
Of such as His blest Name adore.
Save me O God from Waves that roll
In Full Assurance of Thy Grace
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 Topics: Imprecatory Psalms; Persecution Of Believers; Suffering of Christ; Cross of Christ Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN
In Full Assurance of Thy Grace
Save Me, O God; I Sink in Floods
Author: Marie J. Post Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 4 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 Topics: Enemies & Persecution; Laments; Suffering of Christ; Alternative Harmonizations; Enemies & Persecution; Laments; Suffering of Christ Used With Tune: ST. FLAVIAN
Save Me, O God; I Sink in Floods
Jesus, Lover of my soul
Author: C. Wesley Meter: 7.7.7.7 D Appears in 3,216 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:15 Topics: The Christian Life Faith, Penitence and Confession Used With Tune: HOLLINGSIDE
Jesus, Lover of my soul
Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
Author: Thomas Ken, 1637-1711 Appears in 1,222 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:34 Topics: Benediction; Call to Worship; Doxologies; Grace for Meal; Offering, Offertory; Praise; Prayer Responses; Trinity Used With Tune: OLD HUNDREDTH
Praise God, from Whom All Blessings Flow
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Author: Frederick W. Faber, 1814-1863 Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 900 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:16 Lyrics: 1 There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
Like the wideness of the sea;
There’s a kindness in his justice
Which is more than liberty.
There is plentiful redemption
In the blood that has been shed;
There is joy for all the members
In the sorrows of the Head.
2 For the love of God is broader
Than the measures of the mind,
And the heart of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.
If our love were but more simple
We should take him at his word,
And our lives would be thanksgiving
For the goodness of our Lord.
3 Troubled souls, why will you scatter
Like a crowd of frightened sheep?
Foolish hearts, why will you wander
From a love so true and deep?
There is welcome for the sinner
And more graces for the good;
There is mercy with the Savior;
There is healing in his blood. Topics: Healing; Love of God for Us; Mercy; Salvation; Sin; Service Music for Mass Entrance Song (Gathering of Processional); Rites of the Church Penance (Reconciliation); Rites of the Church Rite of Annointing (Care of teh Sick); The Liturgical Year Lent (Sundays and Weekdays); The Liturgical Year The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus Used With Tune: IN BABILONE
There's a Wideness in God's Mercy
Day is Dying in the West
Author: Mary A. Lathbury Meter: 7.7.7.7.4 Appears in 553 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:34 Lyrics: 1 Day is dying in the west;
Heaven is touching earth with rest:
Wait and worship while the night
Sets her evening lamps alight
Through all the sky.
Refrain:
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Hosts;
Heaven and earth are full of Thee.
Heaven and earth are praising Thee,
O Lord Most High!
2 Lord of life, beneath the dome
Of the universe, Thy home,
Gather us who seek Thy face
To the fold of Thy embrace,
For Thou art nigh. [Refrain]
3 When forever from our sight
Pass the stars, the day, the night,
Lord of angels, on our eyes
Let eternal morning rise,
And shadows end. [Refrain]
Amen. Topics: Adoration and Praise; Discipleship; Evening; God Presence; God Protection; Life Everlasting, The; Worship Evening Used With Tune: CHAUTAUQUA (EVENING PRAISE)
Day is Dying in the West
Psalm 69: Save me, O God, because the floods
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 7 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 First Line: Save me, O God, because the floods Lyrics:
1Save me, O God, because the floods
do so environ me,
That ev’n unto my very soul
come in the waters be.
2I downward in deep mire do sink,
where standing there is none:
I am into deep waters come,
where floods have o’er me gone.
3I weary with my crying am,
my throat is also dry’d;
Mine eyes do fail, while for my God
I waiting do abide.
4Those men that do without a cause
bear hatred unto me,
Than are the hairs upon my head
in number more they be:
They that would me destroy, and are
mine en’mies wrongfully,
Are mighty: so what I took not,
to render forc’d was I.
They that would me destroy, and are
mine en’mies wrongfully,
Are mighty: so what I took not,
to render forc’d was I.
5Lord, thou my folly know’st, my sins
not cover’d are from thee.
6Let none that wait on thee be sham’d,
Lord God of hosts, for me.
O Lord, the God of Israel,
let none, who search do make,
And seek thee, be at any time
confounded for my sake.
7For I have borne reproach for thee,
my face is hid with shame.
8To brethren strange, to mother’s sons
an alien I became.
9Because the zeal did eat me up,
which to thine house I bear;
And the reproaches cast at thee,
upon me fallen are.
10My tears and fasts, t’ afflict my soul,
were turned to my shame.
11When sackcloth I did wear, to them
a proverb I became.
12The men that in the gate do sit
against me evil spake;
They also that vile drunkards were
of me their song did make.
13But, in an acceptable time,
my pray’r, Lord, is to thee:
In truth of thy salvation, Lord,
and mercy great, hear me.
14Deliver me out of the mire,
from sinking do me keep;
Free me from those that do me hate,
and from the waters deep.
15Let not the flood on me prevail,
whose water overflows;
Nor deep me swallow, nor the pit
her mouth upon me close.
16Hear me, O Lord, because thy love
and kindness is most good;
Turn unto me, according to
thy mercies’ multitude.
17Nor from thy servant hide thy face:
I’m troubled, soon attend.
18Draw near my soul, and it redeem;
me from my foes defend.
19To thee is my reproach well known,
my shame, and my disgrace:
Those that mine adversaries be
are all before thy face.
20Reproach hath broke my heart; I’m full
of grief: I look’d for one
To pity me, but none I found;
comforters found I none.
21They also bitter gall did give
unto me for my meat:
They gave me vinegar to drink,
when as my thirst was great.
22Before them let their table prove
a snare; and do thou make
Their welfare and prosperity
a trap themselves to take.
23Let thou their eyes so darken’d be,
that sight may them forsake;
And let their loins be made by thee
continually to shake.
24Thy fury pour thou out on them,
and indignation;
And let thy wrathful anger, Lord,
fast hold take them upon.
25All waste and desolate let be
their habitation;
And in their tabernacles all
inhabitants be none.
26Because him they do persecute,
whom thou didst smite before;
They talk unto the grief of those
whom thou hast wounded sore.
27Add thou iniquity unto
their former wickedness;
And do not let them come at all
into thy righteousness.
28Out of the book of life let them
be raz’d and blotted quite;
Among the just and righteous
let not their names be writ.
29But now become exceeding poor
and sorrowful am I:
By thy salvation, O my God,
let me be set on high.
30The name of God I with a song
most cheerfully will praise;
And I, in giving thanks to him,
his name shall highly raise.
31This to the Lord a sacrifice
more gracious shall prove
Than bullock, ox, or any beast
that hath both horn and hoof.
32When this the humble men shall see,
it joy to them shall give:
O all ye that do seek the Lord,
your hearts shall ever live.
33For God the poor hears, and will not
his prisoners contemn.
34Let heav’n, and earth, and seas, him praise,
and all that move in them.
35For God will Judah’s cities build,
and he will Sion save,
That they may dwell therein, and it
in sure possession have.
36And they that are his servants’ seed
inherit shall the same;
So shall they have their dwelling there
that love his blessed name.
Psalm 69: Save me, O God, because the floods
Though I Am Poor and Sorrowful
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 Topics: Deliverance From Trouble; Jerusalem; Poor Used With Tune: BALERMA
Though I Am Poor and Sorrowful
Suffering and Prayer
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69 First Line: Save me, O God, because the floods Lyrics: 1 Save me, O God, because the floods
Come in upon my soul;
I sink in depths where none can stand,
Deep waters o'er me roll.
2 My constant calling wearies me,
My throat is parched and dried;
My eyes grow dim while for my God
Still waiting I abide.
3 The foes who hate me unprovoked
Are strong and still increase,
Tho' to disarm their enmity
My right I yield for peace.
4 O God, my folly and my sin
Thy holy eye can see;
Yet save from shame,Lord God of Hosts,
Thy saints that wait on Thee.
5 Forbid, O God, our covenant God,
That those who seek Thy face
Should see Thy servant put to shame
And share in my disgrace.
6 It is for Thee I am reproached,
For Thee I suffer shame,
Until my brethren know me not,
And hated is my name.
7 It is my zeal for Thy abode
That has consumed my life;
Reproached by those reproaching Thee,
I suffer in the strife.
8 I wept, with fasting bowed my soul,
Yet that was made my shame;
When I in sackcloth clothed myself,
Their byword I became.
9 The men who sit within the gate
With slander do me wrong,
And they who linger at their cups
Make me their jest and song.
Topics: Afflictions Complaint of; Afflictions From the Wicked; Afflictions Many and Severe; Afflictions Prayer in; Christians Persecuted and Sorrowing; Enemies Many and Mighty; Prayer Confession in; Prayer Pleas in; The Righteous Hated by the Wicked; Salvation Prayers for; Sin Confession of; Spiritual Darkness; The Wicked Persecuting Spirit of; Zeal True Used With Tune: ELLA
Suffering and Prayer
Psalm 69: Turn to the Lord in Your Need
Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:13-36 First Line: This is my prayer to you Refrain First Line: Turn to the Lord in your need Topics: Captivity; Homeland; Ordinary Time Fifteenth Sunday Used With Tune: [Turn to the Lord in your need]
Psalm 69: Turn to the Lord in Your Need
When I survey the wondrous cross
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 1,995 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:19-20 Topics: God: His Attributes, Works and Word The Son - Sufferings and Death Used With Tune: EDEN
When I survey the wondrous cross
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
Author: Reginald Heber (1783-1826) Meter: 11.12.12.10 Appears in 1,641 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 69:34 Lyrics: 1 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty!
early in the morning our song shall rise to thee;
holy, holy, holy, merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessèd Trinity!
2 Holy, holy, holy! all the saints adore thee,
casting down their golden crowns around the glassy sea;
cherubim and seraphim falling down before thee,
God ever living through eternity.
3 Holy, holy, holy! though the darkness hide thee,
though the sinful human eye thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy; there is none beside thee,
perfect in power, in love, and purity.
4 Holy, holy, holy! Lord God almighty!
All thy works shall praise thy name in earth and sky and sea;
holy, holy, holy! merciful and mighty!
God in three Persons, blessèd Trinity. Topics: Angels; God in Trinity; Praise Used With Tune: NICAEA
Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!
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