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A Psalm of Asaph

Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: O to the mighty God our strength Lyrics: 1 O to the mighty GOD our strength sing with a shouting voice; O to the God of Jacob sing and make a joyful noise. 2 Take up a psalm, the timbrel bring, and with your voices join; The pleasant harp and psaltery, in consort sweet combine. 3 At the new moon, let trumpets blow, and joyful voices raise. To celebrate th' appointed time, the solemn day of praise. 4 For this to Israel of old a sacred precept was, And by the God of Jacob this Did for a statute pass. 5 This witness He in Joseph set, when from th' Egyptian shore They went, and heard a voice and speech, they never heard before. 6 I from the heavy burthens took their shoulders clear away; And I their servile hands set free from lab'ring in the clay. 7 When thou wast in great trouble, thou To Me for aid dist call; With pity your distress I saw, and set you free from all. From thunder clouds I answer'd thee, my secret place on high, And at the streams of Meribah, I thro'ly did thee try. [2 Part] 8 Hear, O my people, and my mind I'll testify to thee; To thee,O Isr'el, if thou wilt, but hearken now to Me: 9 Then know, that a strange God in thee, I never will allow; Never to any other God, shalt thou presume to bow. 10 I am the LORD thy God who thee from land of Egypt led; Open thy mouth, and thou by Me with plenty shalt be fed. 11 My people yet would not give ear, To the kind voice I spake; And Israel would not in me, Their full contentment take. 12 So to the bents of their own hearts, I gave them up a prey; And in their foolish counsels then I let them go astray. 13 O that my people Me had heard, and did my voice obey; That Isr'el had obedient been, and walked in my way; 14 I should within a little time Have pulled down their foes; And should have turn'd my hand upon, Such as against them rose. 15 The haters of the LORD had then submission paid, tho' feign'd; But his own people's happy time should ever have remain'd. 16 Yea with the finest of the wheat Have nourish'd them should He; With honey of the Rock I should Have satisfied thee. Scripture: Psalm 81

The Abasement and Exaltation of CHRIST

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: O who has our report believ'd? Lyrics: 1 O who has our report believ'd? And who JEHOVAH's arm doth know? 2 For as a tender plant and root Before Him, from dry ground He'll grow. He has no form, nor comeliness; And when his troubled face we see, No beauty in Him we discern, that by us He desir'd should be. 3 He slighted and rejected is Ev'n of the men He came to save: A man of constant sorrows full, And intimate with heavy grief. Yet we, while He was thus abus'd, Our faces turn'd and hid from Him; By others round He was despis'd, Nor did we Him at all esteem. 4 Tho' sure they were our griefs He bore, Our sinking sorrows bare did He; Yet strook, and smote & scourg'd by GOD, We judg'd Him righteously to be. 5 But ah! 'twas only for our sins That He did all his wounds receive: For our iniquities was bruis'd, That He might us from them relieve. Our chastisement on Him was laid, To purchase our eternal peace: and by his stripes it is that we Are heal'd with wondrous pow'r and grace. 6 We all like sheep astray have gone, Each turn'd to his own sinful way: And yet the trespass on us all The LORD on Him alone did lay. 7 Oppress'd, abus'd, He silent was, As the meek lamb to slaughter bro't; Or sheep, before her shearers dumb, His guiltless mouth He op'ned not 8 From judgment and from pris'n [the grave] Soon rais'd and took away was he; And of his generation who Shall tell the wondrous history? For from the land of living ones In early age was He destroy'd; And for my people's sins the stroke Of vi'lent death was on Him laid. 9 With criminals He dy'd; and yet Among the rich He made his grave; Because He did no injury, Nor ever with his mouth deceive. 10 Yet it JEHOVAH pleas'd to bruise And put Him to extreme distress, When Thou shalt offer up his soul Only for others trespasses: When this is done, then He shall rise, Live ever, and his offspring see; JEHOVAH's pleasure in his hand Shall prosper to eternity: 11 The mulitply'd and happy fruit, Of the vast travel of his soul, He shall survey, and with the view He shall be pleased to the full: By knowledge of the way of life, My righteous servant shall appear Vast multitudes to justify; For He their sins will fully bear. 12 Therefore a portion with the great To Him, as due, divide I will; And with the mighty ones shall He Divide and share the glorious spoil. Because He pour'd his soul to death, And with transgressors numbred was: The sin of many bore; and He For helpless sinners pleads the cause. Scripture: Isaiah 53

A Psalm of David

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Of mercy and of judgement I Lyrics: 1 Of mercy and of judgment I will tune my voice to sing: To Thee JEHOVAH both are due, to Thee the praise I'll bring. 2 I shall the perfect way discern, when Thou wilt come to me; And I'll in uprightness of heart walk in my house with Thee. 3 No wicked thing before mine eyes will I endure to have: I hate their work who turn aside; to me it shall not cleave. 4 The stubborn and the froward heart away from me shall go: I'll make no friendship with the bad, nor intimately know. 5 I'll cut him off whose lies defame, his neighbour secretly: I will not hear the proud of heart, nor him whose looks are high. 6 I'll eye the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: And who walk in an upright way, shall my attendants be. 7 But he who acts deceitfully, in my house shall not dwell; Nor shall he stay before my eyes, who lies allows to tell. 8 Yea all the wicked of the land, early suppress will I; From the LORD's city cut off all who will do wickedly Scripture: Psalm 101

A Song of Degrees

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Oft from my youth they me distress'd Lyrics: 1 Oft from my youth they me distress'd, may Isr'el say with joy; 2 Oft from my youth, they me distress'd, but never could destroy. 3 My back as ploughers, oft they plough'd, and furrows long did make; 4 But the just LORD, the wicked's cords did all asunder break. 5 All those who Zion hate shall be confounded and o'erthrown; 6 Shall be as grass on houses tops, which fades before tis grown. 7 Whereof enough to fill his hand the mower cannot find; Much less can he his bosom fill, whose work is sheaves to bind. 8 Nor those who pass by say--'On you 'JEHOVAH's blessing rest!' Nor these reply--'In the LORD's name 'we wifh you to be bless'd!' Scripture: Psalm 129

The LORD's Prayer

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Our FATHER who in heav'n art seen Lyrics: 9 Our FATHER, who in heav'n art seen, In brightest love and majesty; let all the universe conspire Thy glorious name to sanctify. 10 O let thy promis'd kingdom come Of grace and glory from above: And let thy will be done on earth As 'tis in heav'n with joy and love. 11 Give us this day our daily bread; 12 Our debts to the forgive and blot, As we our debtors free forgive; 13 Into temptation lead us not. But us from every evil save; For thine the universal reign, The pow'r and glory always was, Is, and shall ever be: AMEN. Scripture: Matthew 6:9-13

People that long in darkness walk'd

Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 2 People that long in darkness walk'd Now see a great and wondrous light; On them who dwelt in shades of death The light hath shin'd exceeding bright. 3 The nation thou hast multiply'd, And now their joys increased are; As in the harvest they rejoyce, Like conqu'rers when the spoil they share. 4 For Thou the burthen of their yoke, The staff which on their shoulders lay, And their oppressors rod hast broke, As once they were in Midian's day. 5 For all the wariours battles were Throughout the earth from times of old, With noise confus'd of shouts and groans, In reeking blood their garments roll'd. But now this great, decisive blow, Whereby thy people will be free, Shall be by all devouring FIRE, Wherein their foes shall fuel be. 6 For lo! the virgin's child is born, To us thine only Son id giv'n; Upon his shoulders shall be laid, The government of earth and heav'n. His name is called Wonderful, The Councellor, the mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace, Peace over all the earth abroad. 7 Hos government shall ever grow, And far and wide o'er all extend; And universal peace, the fruit of his just reign, shall know no end. O'er David's kingdom and his throne To rule, and them establish sure, With judgment right and justice clear, His reign for ever shall endure. Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-7

A Psalm of David

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Save me, O GOD: for mighty streams Lyrics: 1 Save me, O GOD: for mighty streams break now into my soul: 2 In depths of mire and floods I sink, and torrents o'er me roll. 3 I with my crying weary am; my throat is thereby dry: And my eyes fail, while for my God, I wait attentively. 4 Those men who for no cause at all to me great hatred bear, More than the hairs upon my head increas'd in number are. Yea mighty are my causeless foes, who would me hurt and slay; Then I resigned and gave up what I ne'er took away. [2 Part] 5 O GOD, Thou know'st my foolishness, Thou dost it fully see; And all my faults of life and heart, lie open clear to Thee. 6 Lord, LORD of hosts, let none who wait on Thee have shame for me; Nor those who seek Thee, Isr'el's God, for me confounded be. 7 Because 'tis only for thy sake, I suffer this disgrace; And for Thy sake alone it is, confusion spreads my face. 8 For Thee, to my own brethren I a stranger quite became; And to my mother's children I, an utter alien am. 9 For of thy house the fervent zeal hath ev'n consumed me; And on me their reproaches fell, who have reproached Thee. 10 My weeping, fasting, grief of soul, to my reproach were turn'd; 11 A proverb to them I became, when I in sackcloth mourn'd. 12 Who sat in gates of dignity, on me did censures pass; And I the subject of the song of stupid drunkards was. 13 But, LORD, in an accepted time I make my pray'r to Thee: In thy great mercy, O my GOD, and saving truth hear me. [3 Part] 14 O rescue me out of the mire, and me from sinking keep: Free me from those who hate my soul, and out of waters deep. 15 Let not the floods me overflow, nor the deep swallow me, Nor mouth of the devouring grave upon me closed be. 16 LORD hear me: for exceeding good is thy benignity; And in thy mercies multitude O turn and look to me. 17 O do not from thy servant hide, thy countenance away; For I in grievous trouble am: hear me without delay. 18 O draw Thou near my troubled soul, redeem and set it free; And from my powerful enemies, do Thou deliver me. 19 Thou knowest all my vile reproach, my shame, and my disgrace: Mine adversaries and their plots are all before thy face. 20 My heart is broken with reproach, and full of heaviness: I look'd, but found no comforter, not one to give me ease. 21 But bitter gall was all the food, they to me offer'd have; And in my parching thirst, for drink sharp vinegar they gave. [4 Part] 22 Before them shall their table prove a snare: and Thou wilt make Their temporal prosperity a trap, themselves to take. 23 Thick darkness on their eyes shall come, that they shall nothing see: And Thou wilt make their loins to shake, for fear, continually. 24 Thou wilt thine anger on them pour; thy wrath shall seize them fast: 25 Their palace shall be desolate; and all their tents be waste: 26 For, him whom Thou hast smitten down, they persecute the more; And vex him with malicious words, whom Thou didst wound before. 27 Thou wilt them therefore justly leave to add more sin to sin; And they thy paths of righteousness shall never enter in. 28 Out of the book of living ones Thou wilt them wholly blot; And in the roll of righteous men, they never shall be wrote. [5 Part] 29 I'm poor, distress'd: salvation grant; raise me, O GOD, on high. 30 I'll praise the name of GOD with songs, with thanks Him magnify. 31 This will be pleasing to the LORD, and better in his eyes, Than any bullocks fat and young, mature for sacrifice. 32 And when the humble this shall see, it joy to them will give: And ye who seek the blessed GOD, your heart shall ever life. 33 Because JEHOVAH hears the poor, his pris'ners won't despise; 34 Let heav'ns, earth, seas, and ev'ry thing that moves therein Him praise. 35 For GOD will Judah's cities build, and Zion he will save; That they may dwell therein, and them for their possession have. 36 The children of his servants too inherit shall the same; And those shall have their dwelling there who truly love his name. Scripture: Psalm 69

The Last Judgment

Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: See where the great incarnate God Lyrics: 1 See where the great incarnate God Fills a majestic Throne, While from the Skies his awful Voice Bears the Last Judgment down. "I am the First, and I the Last, "Thro' endless Years the same "I AM is my Memorial still, "And my eternal Name. 2 "Such Favours as a God can give, "My Royal Grace bestows; "Ye thirsty Souls, come taste the Streams "Where Life and Pleasure flows. "The Saint that triumphs o'er his Sins, "I'll own him for a Son; "The whole Creation shall reward "The Conquests he has won. 3 "But bloody Hands, and Hearts unclean, "And all the lying Race, "The faithless and the scoffing Crew, "That spurn at offer'd Grace; "They shall be taken from my Sight, "Bound fast in Iron Chains, "And headlong plung'd into the Lake "Where Fire and Darkness reigns." 4 O may I stand before the Lamb, When Earth and Seas are fled! And hear the Judge pronounce my Name With Blessings on my Head! May I with those for ever dwell Who here were my Delight, While Sinners banish'd down to Hell, No more offend my Sight.

Shout to Jehovah all the earth

Appears in 3 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Shout to JEHOVAH all the earth: 2 With joyfulness the LORD serve ye: Before his presence come with mirth, And with exulting melody. 3 Know ye, the LORD is GOD alone; Without our aid He did us make; We are the people He does own, And for his pasture-sheep does take. 4 O enter then his gates with praise; And in his courts aloud proclaim, Your thankfulness to Him always, And ever bless his holy name. 5 Because the LORD is ever good; His mercy is for ever sure; His truth has through all ages stood, And will eternally endure. Scripture: Psalm 100

A Psalm or Song of David

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Silence! For Thee, the praise, O GOD Lyrics: 1 Silence! For Thee; the praise, O GOD doth wait in Zion-hill; And all the vows we made to Thee we chearfully fulfil. 2 O Thou who hearest humble pray'rs, which to Thee off'red are, To Thee all sons of men shall come, and to Thee we repair. 3 Works of iniquity prevail against us at this day; Yet as for our transgressions, Thou wilt cleanse them clear away. 4 O blessed is the man of whom Thou thy free choice dost make; And that he in thy courts may dwell him near to Thee dost take. For there we shall be satisfy'd, with thine abundant grace, With all the good things of thy house, thy chosen holy place. 5 By dreadful things in righteousness by Thee wrought wondrously, O God of our salvation, Thou wilt answer to our cry: Who of the ends of all the earth art the firm hope and stay; And of all those who far abroad, are toss'd upon the sea. 6 Girded with strength, He fixes fast the mountains and high hills; 7 And all the noise of seas and waves, and rage of nations* stills. [2 Part] 8 All in the utmost parts who dwell are at thy signs afraid; yet Thou the goings forth of morn and ev'ning makest glad. 9 Thou visitest the thirsty earth, and mak'st it rich and rain: GOD's river full of water is; and Thou preparest grain. 10 Her ridges richly wat'rest Thou, her furrows Thou set'st fast; With show'rs Thou mak'st her soft to be, her springing blest Thou hast. 11 Thou with thy goodness dost the year adorn as with a crown; And thy full paths along the clouds, drop their rich fatness down. 12 On pastures of the wilderness, refreshing they distill: And girt with joy on ev'ry side, is ev'ry little hill. 13 With flocks and pastures cloathed are, with corn the valleys spring; All over cover'd, all adorn'd, they shout for joy and sing.