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My soul, repeat his praise

Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 471 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 My soul, repeat his praise, Whose mercies are so great; Whose anger is so slow to rise, So ready to abate. 2 God will not always chide; And, when His strokes are felt, His strokes are fewer than our crimes, And lighter than our guilt. 3 High as the heav’ns are rais'd, Above the ground we tread, So far the riches of his grace Our highest thoughts exceed. 4 His power subdues our sins; And his forgiving love Far as the east is from the west, Doth all our guilt remove. 5 The pity of the Lord, To those that fear His name, Is such as tender parents feel; He knows our feeble frame. 6 Our days as are the grass, Or like the morning flower! If one sharp blast sweep o’er the field It withers in an hour. 7 But Thy compassions, Lord, To endless years endure; And children’s children ever find Thy words of promise sure.

Thou suit'st, O Lord, thy righteous ways

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 7 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 Thou suit'st, O Lord, thy righteous ways To various paths of human kind: They who for mercy merit praise, With thee shall wondrous mercy find. 2 Such, as perversely choose to go Shall meet with due returns from thee: Thou to the just wilt justice show; The pure thy purity shall see. 3 For seeds are sown of glorious light, A future harvest for the just; And gladness for the heart that's right, To recompense its pious trust. 4 Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord; Memorials of his holiness Deep in your faithful breasts record, And with your thankful tongues confess.

The heart, dejected, sighs to know

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 17 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 The heart, dejected, sighs to know, Why vice triumphant reigns below; Why saints have fall'n in ev'ry age, The victims of tyrannic rage. 2 Fast roll successive years away; Fast hastens on th' important day, When, to th' astonish'd world's surprise, God's high tribunal shall arise. 3 Hark, 'tis the trumpet's piercing sound; The rising dead assemble round; In close procession, see, they come, Each to receive his final doom. 4 Lo! there, a vile, degenerate race; Pale terror sits on ev'ry face: Here, on the right, a joyful band, The sons of suff'ring virtue stand. 5 The sentence pass'd, lo! these arise To bliss and glory in the skies: While those, who once stood high in fame, Sink to contempt, remorse, and shame. 6 Thus shall God's government appear Without a shade, divinely fair; And blushing doubts, with joy, confess, The Lord's a God of righteousness.

When I with curious eyes survey

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 When I with curious eyes survey My complicated frame, I read on ev'ry part inscrib'd My great Creator's name. 2 With nicest art, in secret, God Did ev'ry member write; And, when the model was complete, My eyes beheld the light. 3 He bade the purple flood of life In circling streams to flow; And sent the genial heat around Though ev'ry part to glow. 4. Why was my body form'd erect, Whilst brutes bow down to earth? But that my soul should learn to know, And claim it's nobler birth. 5. Author of life! my tongue shall sing The wonders of my frame. Long as I breathe, and think and speak, I'll praise thy glorious name.

With eye impartial, heav'n's high King

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 30 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 With eye impartial, heav'ns high King Surveys each human tribe; No earthly pomp his eyes can charm, Nor wealth his favour bribe. 2 The rich and poor, of equal clay, His pow'rful hand did frame; All souls are his, and him alike Their common Parent claim. 3 Ye sons of men of high degree, Your great Superior own; Praise him for all his gifts, and pay Your homage at his throne. 4 Trust in the Lord, ye humble poor, And banish ev'ry fear: The God you serve will ne'er forsake The man of heart sincere.

The promises I sing

Meter: Irregular Appears in 106 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 The promises I sing, Which love supreme hath spoke; Nor will th'eternal King His words of grace revoke. They stand secure And steadfast still: Not Sion's hill Abides so sure. 2 The mountains melt away, When once the Judge appears; And sun and moon decay, That measure mortal years: But still the same, In radiant lines, His promise shines Through all the flame. 3 Their harmony shall sound Thro' my attentive ears, When thunders cleave the ground, And dissipate the spheres. Midst all the shock Of that dread scene, I'll stand serene, Thy word my rock.

Lord, all I am is known to thee!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 128 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 Lord, all I am is known to thee! In vain my soul would try To shun thy presence, or to flee The notice of thine eye. 2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys My rising and my rest, My public walks, my private ways, The secrets of my breast. 3 My thoughts lie open to thee, Lord, Before they’re form'd within; And ere my lips pronounce the word, Thou know'st the sense I mean. 4 O wondrous knowledge, deep and high! Where can a creature hide? Within thy circling arms I lie, Beset on ev'ry side. 5 So let thy grace surround me still, And like a bulwark prove, To guard my soul from ev'ry ill, Secur'd by sov'reign love.

What eyes, like thine, eternal Sire

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 9 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 What eyes like thine, eternal Sire, Through sin's obscurest depths inquire? What judge, like thee, on virtue's foes The needful vengeance can impose? 2 The meek observer of thy laws To thee commits his injur'd cause: In thee, each anxious fear resign'd, The fatherless a father find. 3 Thine is the throne; beneath thy reign, Immortal King, the tribes profane Behold their dreams of conquest o'er, And vanish to be seen no more. 4 'Tis thine the orphan's cheek to dry, The guiltless suff'rer's cause to try, To rein each earth-born tyrant's will, And bid the sons of pride be still.

Songs of immortal praise belong

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 126 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 Songs of immortal praise belong to my almighty God: He hath my heart, and he my tongue, To spread his name abroad. 2 How great the works his hands hath wrought! How glorious in our sight! And men in ev'ry age have sought His wonders with delight. 3 How most exact is nature's frame! How wise th' eternal Mind! His counsels need not change the scheme That his first thoughts design'd. 4 When he redeem'd the sons of men, He fix'd his cov'nant sure: The orders, that his lips pronounce, To endless years endure. 5. Nature, and time, and earth, and skies, Thy heav'nly skill proclaim. What shall we do to make us wise, But learn to read thy name? 6 To fear thy pow'r, to trust thy grace, Is our divinest skill; And he's the wisest of our race, Who best obeys thy will.

O thou, the wretched's sure retreat

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 47 hymnals Topics: Character and Perfections of God Lyrics: 1 O thou, the wretched's sure retreat, who dost their cares controul, And, with the cheerful smile of peace, Revive the fainting soul! 2 Did ever thy propitious ear The humble plea disdain? Or when did plaintive mis'ry sigh, Or supplicate, in vain? 3 Opprest with grief and shame, dissolv'd In penitential tears, Thy goodness calms our anxious doubts, And dissipates our fears. 4 Now life from thy refreshing grace, Our sinking hearts receive; Thy gentlest, best-lov'd attribute, To pity and forgive. 5 From that blest source, propitious hope Appears serenely bright, And sheds her soft and cheering beam O'er sorrow's dismal night. 6 Our hearts adore thy mercy, Lord, And bless the friendly ray, Which ushers in the smiling morn Of everlasting day.