The First Psalm

How blest is he who never consents By ill advice to walk

Published in 51 hymnals

Representative Text

1 How blest is he, who ne'er consents
By ill advice to walk;
Nor stands in sinner's ways, nor sits
Where men profanely talk;
But makes the perfect law of God
His bus'ness and delight;
Devoutly reads therein by day,
And meditates by night.

2 Like some fair tree, which, fed by streams,
With timely fruit does bend,
He still shall flourish, and success
All his designs attend.
For God approves the just man's ways;
To happiness they tend:
But sinners, and the paths they tread,
Shall both in ruin end.

Source: A Selection of Psalms with occasional hymns (Charleston hymnal) #P.I

Text Information

First Line: How blest is he who never consents By ill advice to walk
Title: The First Psalm
Source: Tate & Brady
Language: English
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[There is a time, we know not when] (13323)


DUNDEE (Ravenscroft)

DUNDEE first appeared in the 1615 edition of the Scottish Psalter published in Edinburgh by Andro Hart. Called a "French" tune (thus it also goes by the name of FRENCH), DUNDEE was one of that hymnal's twelve "common tunes"; that is, it was not associated with a specific psalm. In the Psalter Hymnal…

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SWEET PROSPECT (Southern Harmony)


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