Text:I love, because Jehovah doth

PCXVI. I love, because Jehovah doth

1 I love, because Jehovah doth
My voice and pray'r hear.
2 And in my days will call, because
He bow'd to me his ear.
3 The pangs of death on ev'ry side
About beset me round;
The pains of hell gat hold of me,
Distress and grief I found.

4 Upon Jehovah's name therefore
I called and did say,
Deliver thou my soul, O Lord,
I do thee humbly pray.
5 Jehovah gracious is and just,
Our God is kind also:
6 The Lord the simple keeps, and he
Me sav'd when I was low.

7 O thou my soul do thou return
Unto thy quiet rest,
Because the Lord hath bounteously
To thee himself exprest.
Because the Lord hath bounteously
To thee himself exprest.
8 Because that thou my soul from death
Hath set at liberty:
Thou hast mine eyes from tears likewise,
And feet from fall set free.

9 I in the land of living ones
Will walk the Lord before.
10 I did believe, therefore I speak,
I was afflicted sore.
11 That every man a liar is,
I in my haste did say.
12 For all his benefits to me,
The Lord what shall I pay:

13 I'll take the cup of saving health
And on the Lord's name call.
14 I'll pay the Lord my vows, yea now
Before his people all.
15 In presence of Jehovah is
Accounted very dear
The death of every one of those
His gracious saints that are.

16 I verily thy servant am,
Thy servant Lord am I,
I of thy handmaid am the son;
My bands thou didst unty.
17 Of thanksgiving the sacrifice
To thee I offer will;
Jehovah's name I earnestly
Will call upon it still.

18 Unto Jehovah I will pay
The vows were made by me,
Now in the presence of them all
That his own people be.
19 Within the court-yard of the house
That to the Lord belongs:
In mid'st of thee Jerusalem,
Oh praise the Lord with songs.

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First Line: I love, because Jehovah doth
Language: English
Publication Date: 1742
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