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Text:O send thy light forth and thy truth
Tune:INVOCATION
Composer:Robert Archibald Smith (1780-1829)

35. O send thy light forth and thy truth

1 O send thy light forth and thy truth;
let them be guides to me,
and bring me to thine holy hill,
even where thy dwellings be.
Then will I to God's altar go,
to God my chiefest joy:
yea, God, my God, thy name to praise
my harp I will employ.

2 Why art thou then cast down, my soul?
what should discourage thee?
Any why with vexing thoughts art thou
disquieted in me?
Still trust in God; for him to praise
good cause I yet shall have:
he of my countenance is the health,
my God that doth me save.

Text Information
First Line: O send thy light forth and thy truth
Meter: DCM extended
Language: English
Publication Date: 2005
Scripture:
Topic: Church: Worship; Despair and Trouble; Guidance (1 more...)
Source: The Scottish Psalter, 1929
Tune Information
Name: INVOCATION
Composer: Robert Archibald Smith (1780-1829)
Meter: DCM extended
Key: D Major



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