The Cyber Hymnal ‎#2497

2497. How Fast Their Guilt and Sorrows Rise

1. How fast their guilt and sorrows rise
Who haste to seek some idol-god!
I will not taste their sacrifice,
Their offerings of forbidden blood.

2. My God provides a richer cup,
And nobler food to live upon:
He for my life has offered up
Jesus, His best-belovèd Son.

3. His love is my perpetual feast;
By day His counsels guide me right;
And be His name for ever blessed,
Who gives me sweet advice by night.

4. I set Him still before mine eyes;
At my right hand He stands prepared
To keep my soul from all surprise
And be my everlasting guard.

Text Information

• First Line: How fast their guilt and sorrows rise
• Title: How Fast Their Guilt and Sorrows Rise
• Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
• Meter: LM
• Language: English
• Source: The Psalms of David, 1719
• Copyright: Public Domain

Tune Information

• Name: FESTUS
• Composer: Anonymous
• Meter: LM
• Incipit: 51765 62433 25345
• Key: D Major
• Source: From a German chorale in the Moravian Psalter
• Copyright: Public Domain