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The king of heaven his table spreads

Author: Philip Doddridge Appears in 234 hymnals Used With Tune: BROWN

Hail, sacred truth, whose piercing rays

Author: John Buttress Appears in 98 hymnals Used With Tune: BROWN

To heav'n I lift my waiting eyes

Author: Watts Appears in 111 hymnals Used With Tune: BROWN

Wie bist du mir so innig gut

Appears in 68 hymnals Topics: Vom Leiden und Sterben Jesu Christi Used With Tune: BROWN

Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich

Author: Nikol. Hermann Appears in 98 hymnals Used With Tune: [Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich]

Author: Thomas Sternhold Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 11 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Attend, my people, to my law; Thereto give thou an ear; The words that from my mouth proceed Attentively do hear. 2 My mouth shall speak a parable, And sayings dark of old; The same which we have heard and known, Ev’n as our fathers told. 3 We will not from their children hide The wonders done by Thee; To generations yet to come These things declare will we. 4 The praises of the Lord our God, And His almighty strength, The wondrous works that He hath done, We will show forth at length. 5 His testimony and His law In Israel He did place, And charged our fathers it to show To their succeeding race; 6 That so the race which was to come These things might learn and know; And sons unborn, who should arise, Might to their sons them show: 7 That they might set their hope in God, And suffer not to fall His mighty works out of their mind, But keep His precepts all: 8 And might not, like their fathers, be A stiff rebellious race; A race not right in heart with God Whose spirit faithless was. 9 The sons of Ephraim, who nor bows Nor other arms did lack, When as the day of battle was, Yet faintly turnèd back. 10 They broke God’s covenant, and refused In His commands to go; His works and wonders they forgot, Which He to them did show. 11 Things marvelous He brought to pass; Their fathers them beheld Within the land of Egypt done, Yea, even Zoan’s field. 12 By Him divided was the sea, He led them through the flood; The waters on each side He raised, Till as a heap they stood. 13 With cloud by day, with light of fire All night He did them guide. In desert, rocks He cleft, and drink, As from great depths, supplied. 14 He also from the rock brought streams, Like floods made waters run. Yet, sinning more, in desert they Provoked the Highest One. 15 For in their heart they tempted God, And, speaking with mistrust, They greedily did meat require To satisfy their lust. 16 Against the Lord Himself they spake, And, murmuring, said thus, A table in the wilderness Can God prepare for us? 17 Behold, He smote the rock, and thence Came streams and waters great; But can He give His people bread? And send them flesh to eat? 18 Jehovah heard, His wrath arose: Then kindled was a flame On Jacob, and on Israel His indignation came. 19 For they believed not God, nor trust In His salvation had; Though clouds above He did command, And Heav’n’s doors open made, 20 And manna rained on them, and gave Them corn of Heav’n to eat. Man angels’ food did eat; to them He to the full sent meat. 21 He in the heaven also caused An eastern wind to blow; And by His power He let out The southern wind to go. 22 Then flesh He rained on them like dust Which cannot numbered be; And feathered fowls in numbers vast Like sands along the sea. 23 At His command, amid their camp The flesh in showers fell; On every side it fell about The tents where they did dwell. 24 So they did eat abundantly, And had of meat their fill; For He did give to them what was Their own desire and will. 25 They from their lust had not estranged Their heart and their desire; But while the meat was in their mouths, Which they did so require, 26 God’s wrath upon them came, and slew The fattest of them all; And so the choice of Israel, O’erthrown by death, did fall. 27 Yet after all the Lord had done They still went on in sin; Nor did believe, although His works So wonderful had been. 28 He therefore did in vanity Their days consume and waste; And by His wrath their wretched years Away in trouble passed. 29 But when He slew them, then they did To seek Him show desire; Yea, they returned, and after God Did earnestly enquire. 30 And that the Lord had been their Rock, They did remember then; And that the high almighty God Had their Redeemer been. 31 Yet with their mouth they flattered Him, And with their tongues they lied; Their heart was not sincere; they from His covenant turned aside. 32 But, full of pity, He forgave Their sin, nor did them slay; Nor stirred up all His wrath, but oft His anger turned away. 33 For that they were but fading flesh To mind He did recall; A wind that passeth soon away, And ne’er returns at all. 34 How often in the wilderness Did they provoke His wrath! How often grieved Him, as they marched Along their desert path! 35 Yea, turning back, they tempt the Lord, And and boldly limits place About the high and holy One— The God of Israel’s race. 36 And they remembered not His hand Nor yet the noted day When He redeemed them from the foe Who sought them for his prey. 37 Nor how great signs in Egypt land He openly had wrought; What miracles in Zoan’s field His hand to pass had brought. 38 How He their rivers and their lakes Turned everywhere to blood; That neither man nor beast could drink Of standing lake or flood. 39 Devouring flies, of divers sorts, The Lord among them brought; And swarms of frogs o’er all the land, Which great destruction wrought. 40 He to the caterpillar gave The fruits of all their soil; He gave the labors of their hands To be the locust’s spoil. 41 Their vines with hail, their sycamores He with the frost did blast: Their beasts to hail He gave; their flocks Hot thunderbolts did waste. 42 He cast upon them anger fierce; To burning wrath gave vent; In indignation troubled them By evil angels sent. 43 He did not spare their soul from death But for His wrath made way; And to the fearful pestilence He gave their life a prey. 44 And over Egypt’s land He smote Their first born, and their pride, Till everywhere in tents of Ham Their chief of strength had died. 45 But forth from these like sheep He brought His own, His chosen band, And led His people like a flock Across the desert land. 46 And on their journey He them led, Secure from every fear, But by the sea’s o’erwhelming waves Their enemies covered were. 47 To borders of His holy place The Lord His people brought, Ev’n to the mountain which for them His own right hand had bought. 48 The nations which in Canaan dwelt, He also by His hand, Before His people’s face, expelled Beyond their native land; 49 Which for inheritance to them By line He did divide, And made the tribes of Israel Within their tents abide. 50 But God most high they did provoke, They tempted Him again; His testimonies to observe Their will did not incline. 51 But, like their fathers, they turned back, In faithlessness and pride, And like a false, deceitful bow, They all were turned aside. 52 Because to anger they provoked The Lord with places high, And with their graven images Moved Him to jealousy. 53 When God heard this, He angry was, And much loathed Israel then: So Shiloh’s tent He left, the tent Which He had placed with men. 54 And He His strength delivered o’er To long captivity; He left His glory in the hand Of His proud enemy. 55 His people also to the sword In anger o’er He turned: Against His own inheritance His wrath so fiercely burned. 56 The fire consumed their choice young men; Their maids no marriage had; And when their priests fell by the sword, Their wives no mourning made. 57 But then the Lord arose, as one That doth from sleep awake; And like a giant that, by wine Refreshed, a shout doth make. 58 And on the backs of fleeing foes He caused His strokes to fall, And to reproach perpetual He put His enemies all. 59 Moreover, Joseph’s tent He spurned, Nor Ephraim’s tribe approved; But Judah’s tent Jehovah chose, The Zion Mount he loved. 60 And like the firm and lofty hills He built His holy place; Yea, strong as earth’s foundation fast, He gave it changeless base. 61 Of David as His servant then His sovereign choice did make, And him, from out the folds of sheep, The Lord was pleased to take. 62 From waiting on the suckling ewes, He brought him forth to feed His Israel, His inheritance, His people, Jacob’s seed. 63 So with integrity of heart He did them wisely feed; And with His skillfulness of hands He did them safely lead. Used With Tune: BROWN Text Sources: The Psalter: the Scottish Version of the Psalms Revised, and New Versions Adopted by the United Presbyterian Church by R. B. Robertson and John Gailey (Philadelphia: United Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1872)

There is an eye that never sleeps

Author: John A. Wallace Appears in 187 hymnals Lyrics: 1 There is an eye that never sleeps Beneath the wing of night; There is an ear that never shuts When sink the beams of light. 2 There is an arm that never tires When human strength gives way; There is a love that never fails When earthly loves decay. 3 That eye is fixed on seraph throngs; That arm upholds the sky; That ear is filled with angel songs; That love is throned on high. 4 But there's a power which man can wield When mortal aid is vain, That eye, that arm, that love to reach, That listening ear to gain. 5 That power is prayer, which soars on high, Through Jesus, to the throne; And moves the hand which moves the world, To bring salvation down. Topics: The Christian Meditation and Prayer Used With Tune: BROWN