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Do not, O God, refrain thy tongue

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Do not, O God, refrain thy tongue, in silence do not stay; With-hold not, Lord, thyself so long, and make no more delay. 2 For why? behold thy foes, and see how they do rage and cry; And those that bear a hate to thee hold up their heads on high: 3 Against thy folk they use deceit, and craftily enquire; For thine elect to lie in wait in council they conspire. 4 Come on, say they, let us expel and pluck this folk away, So that the Name of Israel may utterly decay. 5 They all conspire within their heart, how they may thee withstand, Against the Lord to take a part they are in league and band: 6 The tents of all the Edomites, the Ishmaelites likewise, The Hagarens and Moabites their plots do still devise; 7 Gebal and Ammon do likewise with Amalek conspire, The Philistines against thee rise, with them that dwell at Tyre; 8 Assur is also join'd to them in their conspiracy, And is become a fence and aid to Lot's posterity, 9 As thou didst to the Midianites, so serve them, Lord, each one: To Jabin and to Sisera, beside the brook Kison; 10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy, and waste them thro' thy might, That they like dung on earth did lie, and that in open sight. The Second Part. 11 Make them now and their lords appear like Zeb and Oreb then; As Zebu and Zalmunna were, the kings of Midian: 12 Who said, let us throughout the land, in all the coasts abroad, Possess and take into our hand the fair houses of God. 13 Turn them, O God, with storms so fast as wheels, that have no stay, Or like the chaff, which men do cast with wind to fly away; 14 Like as the fire with rage and fume the mighty forest spills, And as the flame doth quite consume the mountains and the hills; 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath upon their necks be laid, And of thy wind and stormy breath, Lord, make them all afraid. 16 Lord, bring them all, I thee desire, to such rebuke and shame, That it may cause them to enquire, and learn to seek thy Name: 17 And let them daily more and more to shame and slander fall, And in rebuke and obloquy confound and sink them all; 18 That they may know and understand, thou art the God most High And that thou dost with mighty hand the world rule constantly. Scripture: Psalm 83

How pleasant is thy dwelling-place

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 How pleasant is thy dwelling-place, O Lord of Hosts, to me? The Tabernacles of thy Grace, how pleasant, Lord, they be? 2 My soul doth long full sore to go into thy courts abroad, My heart and flesh cry out also for thee the living God. 3 The sparrows find a room to rest, and save themselves from wrong, The swallow also hath a nest wherein to keep her young: 4 These birds full nigh thy altar may have place to sit and sing. O Lord of Hosts thou art alway my only God and King. 5 O they be blessed, that may dwell within thy house always! For they all times thy facts do tell, and ever give thee praise: 6 Yea happy sure likewise are they, whose stay and strength thou art; Who to thy house do mind the way, And seek it in their heart. 7 As they go through the vale of tears, they dig up fountains still; That as a spring it all appears, and thou their pits dost fill. 8 From strength to strength they go full fast, no faintness there shall be: And so the God of gods at last in Sion they do see. 9 O Lord of hosts, to me give heed, and hearken to my cry, And let it through thine ears proceed, O Jacob's God most high. 10 O God our shield, of thy good grace regard, and so draw near. Regard, O Lord, behold the face of thine Anointed dear: 11 For why? within thy courts one day is better to abide, Than other where to keep or stay a thousand days beside. 12 Much rather had I keep a door within the house of God, Than in the tents of wickedness to settle my abode. 13 For God the Lord, light and defence, will grace and worship give, And no good thing will he withhold from them, that purely live. 14 O Lord of hosts, that man is blest, and happy sure is he, That is persuaded in his breast to trust all times in thee. Scripture: Psalm 84

To sing the mercies of the Lord

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 To sing the mercies of the Lord my tongue shall never spare; My mouth from age to age accord thy truth for to declare. 2 For I have said, that mercy shall for evermore endure, Thy faithfulness in the heav'ns all is stablish'd firm and sure. 3 With mine elect, saith God, have I a faithful cov'nant made, And sworn to David solemnly, having to him thus said; 4 Thy seed for ever I will stay, and stablish it full fast, And still uphold thy throne alway, from age to age to last. 5 The heav'ns do shew with joy and mirth thy wond'rous works, O Lord; Thy saints within thy Church on earth thy faith and truth record. 6 Who with the Lord is equal then in all the clouds abroad? Among the sons of gods or men what one is like our God? 7 God in th' assembly of the saints is greatly to be dread, And over all that dwell about in rev'rence to be had. 8 Lord God of hosts, in all the world, what one is like to thee? On every side, most mighty Lord, thy truth is seen to be. 9 The rage and fury of the sea thou rulest at thy will, And when the waves thereof arise, thou mak'st them calm and still: 10 And Egypt, Lord, thou hast subdu'd, thou hast destroy'd it quite; Thy foes thou closely hast pursu'd, and scatter'd thro' thy might. The Second Part. 11 The heav'ns are thine, and still have been, likewise the earth and land, The world and all that is therein thou foundedst with thy hand: 12 Both north and south, with east and west, thyself didst make and frame: Both Tabor mount and Hermon hill rejoice, and praise thy Name. 13 Thine arm is strong and full of power, all might therein doth lie; The strength of thy right hand each hour thou liftest up on high. 14 In righteousness and equity thou hast thy seat and place; Mercy and truth are still with thee, and go before thy face, 15 That folk is blest, that knoweth right the joyful sound, O God; For in the favour of thy sight they walk full safe abroad; 16 And in thy Name throughout the day they greatly do rejoice, And through thy righteousness have they a pleasant fame and noise. 17 For why? their glory, strength, and aid, in thee alone doth lie; And thy goodness which hath us staid, shall lift our horn on high. 18 Our strength that doth defend us well, the Lord to us doth bring; The Holy One of Israel he is our guide and King. 19 Sometimes thy will to holy men in visions thou didst show, And thus didst say unto them then, thy mind to make them know; 20 A man of might I have erect your King and guide to be, And set him up, whom I elect among the folk to me; The Third Part. 21 My servant David I appoint to rule my people well, And with my holy oil anoint him king of Israel. 22 For why? my hand is ready still with him for to remain, And with my arm also I will him strengthen and sustain: 23 The enemies shall not oppress, they shall not him devour, Nor shall the sons of wickedness on him have any pow'r: 24 His foes likewise I will destroy before his face in sight, Those that him hate I will annoy, and strike them with my might: 25 My truth and mercy shall likewise upon him ever lie, And in my name his horn shall rise, and be exalted high: 26 His kingdom I will set to be : upon the sea and land; Also the running flood shall he embrace with his right hand: 27 He shall depend with all his heart on me, and thus shall say, My Father and my God thou art, my rock, my health, and stay: 28 As my first-born I will him count of all on earth that springs; His might and honour shall surmount above all earthly kings: 29 My mercy shall be with him still, as I myself have told, My faithful cov'nant to fulfil, my promise I will hold: 30 Also his seed I will sustain for ever strong and sure; So that his seed shall still reanain, while heav'n and earth endure. The Fourth Part. 31 But if his sons forsake my law, and so begin to swerve, And of my judgements have no awe, and will not them observe; 32 Or if they do not use aright my laws for them prepar'd; But set all my commandments light, and will not them regard: 33 Then with the rod will I begin their doing to amend, and so will scourge them for their sin, whenever they offend. 34 But yet my mercy and goodness I will not take away From him, nor let my faithfulness in any wise decay: 35 But sure my cov'nant I will hold, with all that I have spoke: No word the which my lips have shall alter or be broke. 36 Once sware I by my holiness, and that perform will I; With David I will promise keep, to him I will not lye: 37 His seed for evermore shall reign, also his throne of might, As doth the sun it shall remain for ever in my sight. 38 And as the moon within the sky for ever standeth fast, A faithful witness from on high; so shall his kingdom last. 39 But, Lord, thou dost him now reject, and put him in great fear; Yea, thou art wroth with thine elect, thine own anointed dear; 40 The cov'nant with thy servant made thou hast quite overthrown, And down upon the ground hast laid and cast his royal crown: The fifth Part. 41 His hedges thou hast overthrown, his walls destroy'd quite round; All his strong holds hast beaten down, and levell'd with the ground: 42 That he is sore destroy'd and torn of comers-by throughout, And so is made a mock and scorn to all that dwell about: 43 Thou their right hand hast arm'd with pow'r, that him so sore annoy; And all his foes that him devour, lo, thou hast made to joy: 44 His sword's edge thou dost take away that should his foes withstand; To him in war no victory thou giv'st, nor upper-hand: 45 His glory thou dost also waste, his throne, his joy and mirth, By thee is overthrown and cast full low upon the earth: 46 Thou hast cut off, and made full short his youth and joyful days, And rais'd of him an ill report, to his shame and dispraise. 47 How long away from me therefore, for ever wilt thou turn? And shall thine anger evermore like fire consume and burn? 48 O call to mind, remember then, my time consumeth fast: Why hast thou made the sons of men as things in vain to waste? 49 What man is he that liveth, and death never thinks to see? Or from the grave's devouring hand shall he his soul set free? 50 Where is, O Lord, thy great goodness, so oft declar'd before, Which by thy truth and uprightness to David thou hast swore? 51 The great rebukes to mind I call, that on thy servants lie, The railings of the people all, borne in my breast have I. 52 Wherewith, O Lord, thine enemies blasphemed have thy Name; The steps of thine anointed one they cease not to defame. 53 All praise be given unto thee, O God the Lord most high, From this time forth for evermore, Amen, amen, say I. Scripture: Psalm 89

Thou hast been merciful indeed

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Thou hast been merciful indeed, O Lord, unto thy land; For thou restored'st Jacob's seed from thraldom by strong hand: 2 The wicked ways, that they were in, thou didst them clean remit; And thou didst hide thy people's sin, full close thou cover'dst it: 3 And thou thy anger didst asswage, that all thy wrath was gone; And so didst turn thee from thy rage, with them to be at one. 4 O God our help, do thou convert thy people unto thee, Put all thy wrath from us apart, and angry cease to be. 5 Shall thy fierce anger never end, but still be pour'd on us? And shall thy wrath itself extend unto all ages thus? 6 Wilt thou not rather turn again, and quicken us, that we And all thy folk that yet remain may glad and joyful be? 7 O Lord, on us do thou declare thy goodness to our wealth; Shew forth to us, and do not spare thy aid and saving health. 8 I'll hear what God the Lord doth say, to his he speaketh peace, And to his saints, that never they return to foolishness. 9 For why? his help is still at hand to such as do him fear, Whereby great glory in our land shall dwell and flourish there, 10 For truth and mercy there shall meet in one to take their place, And peace shall justice with kiss greet, and there they shall embrace. 11 Truth from the earth shall spring apace, and flourish pleasantly; So righteousness shall shew her face, and look from heav'n most high. 12 Yea, God himself doth take in hand to give us each good thing, And through the coasts of all the land the earth her fruit shall bring. 13 Before his face shall justice go, like to a guide or stay; He shall direct his steps also, and keep them in the way. Scripture: Psalm 85

Lord, bow thy ear to my request

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, bow thy ear to my request, and hear me speedily; For with great pain and grief opprest, full poor and weak am I: 2 Preserve my soul, because my ways and doings holy be; And save thy servant, O my God, that puts his trust in thee. 3 Thy mercy upon me express, and me defend alway; For through the day I do not cease to thee, O Lord, to pray. 4 Comfort thy servant's soul, I pray, that now with pain is pin'd; For unto thee I do alway lift up my soul and mind. 5 For thou art good and bountiful, thy gifts of grace are free, Also thy mercy plentiful to all, that call on thee. 6 O Lord, likewise when I do pray, regard and give an ear, Mark well the words, that I do say, all my petitions hear. 7 In time when trouble doth me move to thee I do complain; For why? I know and well do prove thou answer'st me again. 8 Among the gods, O Lord, is none with thee to be compar'd; And none can do as thou hast done, the like has not been heard. The Second Part. 9 The Gentiles and the people all, whom thou didst make and frame, Before thy face on knees shall fall, and glorify thy Name. 10 For why? thou art so much of might, all power is thy own, Thou workest wonders still in sight; for thou art God alone. 11 O teach me, Lord, thy way, and I shall in thy truth proceed; O join my heart to thee so nigh, that I thy Name may dread. 12 To thee will I give thanks and praise, O Lord, with all my heart, And glorify thy Name always, because my God thou art. 13 For why? thy mercy shew'd to me is great and doth excel; Thou sett'st my soul at liberty out from the lowest hell. 14 O Lord, the proud against me rise, and heaps of men of might; They seek my soul, and in no wise will have thee in their sight. 15 Thou, Lord, art merciful and kind, and very slow to wrath; Thy goodness is full great I find, thy truth no measure hath. 16 O turn to me, and mercy show, thy strength to me apply; O help and save thy servant now, thy handmaid's son am I: 17 On me some sign of favour show, that all my foes may see And be asham'd, because that thou dost help and comfort me. Scripture: Psalm 86

That city shall full well endure

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 That city shall full well endure, her ground-work still doth stay Upon the holy hills full sure, it can no time decay. 2 God loves the gates of Sion best, his grace doth there abide, He loves them more than all the rest of Jacob's tents beside. 3 Full glorious things reported be in Sion, and abroad; Great things, I say, are said of thee, thou city of our God. 4 On Rahab I will east an eye, and bear in mind the same; To Babylon also apply, and them that know thy Name. 5 Lo, Palestine, and Tyre also, with Ethiope likewise, A people old full long ago, were born and there did rise. 6 Of Sion they shall say abroad, that divers men of fame Have there sprung up, and the high God hath founded fast the same. 7 In their records to them it shall by him be made appear, Of Sion, that the chief of all had his beginning there. 8 The trumpeters wit: such as sing, therein great plenty be; My fountains and my pleasant springs are all contain'd in thee. Scripture: Psalm 87

Lord God of health, the hope and stay

Author: J. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord God of health, the hope and stay thou art alone to me, I call and cry throughout the day, and all the night to thee. 2 O let my pray'r with speed ascend unto thy sight on high, Incline thine ear, O Lord, attend, and hearken to my cry. 3 For why? with wo my heart is fill'd, and doth in trouble dwell, My life and breath doth almost yield, and draweth nigh to hell. 4 I am esteem'd as one of them, that in the pit do fall, And made as one among those men that have no strength at all; 5 As one among the dead, and free from things, that here remain; It were more ease for me to be with them, the which are slain; 6 As those that lie in grave, I say, whom thou hast clean forgot, The which thy hand hath cut away, and thou regard'st them not; 7 Yea, like to one shut up full sure within the lowest pit, In darksome place and all obscure, and in the depth of it. 8 Thy anger and thy wrath likewise full sore on me do lie, And all thy storms against me rise, my soul to vex and try. 9 Thou putt'st my friends far off from me, and mak'st them hate me sore; I am shut up in prison fast, and can come forth no more. 10 My sight doth fail, through grief and wo, I call to thee, O God, Throughout the day my hands also to thee I stretch abroad. The Second Part. 11 Dost thou unto the dead declare thy wondrous works of fame? Shall dead to life again repair, and praise thee for the same? 12 Or shall thy loving-kindness, Lord, be shewed in the grave? Or shall with them, that are destroy'd thy truth her honour have? 13 Shall they that lie in dark full low see all thy wonders great? Or there shall they thy justice know, where men all things forget? 14 But I, O Lord, to thee alway do cry and call apace, My pray'r also ere it be day shall come before thy face. 15 Why dost thou, Lord, abhor my soul in grief, that seeketh thee? And now, O Lord, why dost thou hide thy face away from me? 16 I am afflicted, dying still from youth many a year, Thy terrors which do work me ill with troubled mind I bear: 17 The furies of thy wrathful rage full sore upon me lie. Thy terrors they do not asswage, but press me heavily; 18 All day they compass me about, as water at the tide, And all at once with streams full great beset me on each side. 19 Thou settest far from me my friends and lovers ev'ry one; Yea, and my old acquaintance all out of my sight are gone. Scripture: Psalm 88

Incline thine ears O Lord, and let

Author: T. S. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Incline thine ears, O Lord, and let my words have free access To thee, who art my God and King, from whom I seek redress. 2 Hear me betimes, Lord, tarry not, for I will have respect My supplication in the morn to thee for to direct. 3 And I will patiently still trust in thee, my God, alone; Thou art not pleas'd with wickedness, and ill with thee dwells none. 4 Such as be foolish shall not stand in sight of thee, O Lord; Vain workers of iniquity thou hast always abhorr'd. 5 The lyars and base flatterers shall be destroy'd by thee, Blood-thirsty and deceitful men likewise shall hated be. 6 Therefore will I come to thy house, trusting upon thy grace, And rev'rently will worship thee towards thy holy place. 7 Lord, lead me in thy righteousness, for to confound my foes; Also the way that I should walk before my face disclose: 8 For in their mouths there is no truth, their inward filth is great, Their throat an open sepulchre, and tongues full of deceit. 9 Destroy their false conspiracies, that they may come to naught; Subvert them in their heaps of sin, who have rebellion wrought; 10 But those that put their trust in thee, let them be glad always, And render thanks for thy defence, and give thy name the praise 11 For thou with favour wilt encrease the just and righteous still, And with thy grace, as with a shield, defend him from all ill. Scripture: Psalm 5

Lord in thy wrath reprove me not

Author: T. S. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, in thy wrath reprove me not, tho' I deserve thine ire; Nor yet correct me in thy rage, O Lord, I thee desire: 2 For I am weak, therefore, O Lord, of mercy me forbear; And heal me, Lord, for why? thou know'st my bones do quake for fear. 3 My soul is troubled very sore, and vex'd exceedingly; But, Lord, how long wilt thou delay to cure my misery? 4 Lord, turn thee to thy wonted grace, some pity on me take; O save me, not for my deserts, but for thy mercies' sake. 5 For why? no man among the dead remembreth thee at all; Or who shall worship thee, O Lord, that in the pit do fall? 6 So grievous is my plaint and moan, that I grow wondrous faint, All the night long I wash my bed with tears of my complaint. 7 My sight is dim, and waxeth old with anguish of my heart, For fear of them that be my foes, and would my soul subvert. 8 But now depart from me, all ye that work iniquity, Because the Lord hath heard the voice of my complaint and cry: 9 He heard not only the request and pray'r of my sad heart, But it received at my hands, and took it in good part. 10 And now my foes that vexed me the Lord wilt soon defame, And suddenly confound them all with great rebuke and shame. Scripture: Psalm 6

O Lord my God, I put my trust

Author: T. S. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O Lord my God, I put my trust and confidence in thee; Save me from them that me pursue, and still deliver me: 2 Lest like a lion me he tear and rend in pieces small, While there is none to succour me, and rid me out of thrall. 3 O Lord my God, if I have done the thing that is not right, Or else if I be found in fault, or guilty in thy sight; 4 Or to my friend rewarded ill, or left him in distress, Who me pursu'd most cruelly, and hated me causeless: 5 Then let my foe pursue my soul, let him my life down thrust Unto the earth, and also lay my honour in the dust. 6 Stand up, O Lord, in wrath, because my foes do rage so fast; Unto the judgment rise for me which thou commanded hast. 7 Then shall great nations come to thee, and know thee by this thing, If thou declare, for love of them, thyself as Lord and King. 8 And as thou art of all men Judge, O Lord, now judge thou me, According to my righteousness and my integrity. The Second Part. 9 Lord, cease the hate of wicked men, and be the just man's guide, By whom the secrets of all hearts are searchèd and descry'd. 10 I take my help to come of God in all my pain and smart, Who doth preserve all those that be of pure and perfect heart. 11 The just man and the wicked both God judgeth by his power, So that he feels his mighty hand ev'n every day and hour. 12 Except he change his mind, I die: for ev'n as he thinks fit, He whets his sword, he bends his bow, aiming where he may hit; 13 And doth prepare his mortal darts his arrows keen and sharp, For them that do me persecute, and do on mischief harp. 14 But 1o, tho' he in travail be of his dev'lish forecast, Yet of his mischief once conceiv'd he brings forth nought at last. 15 He digs a ditch and makes it deep, in hopes to hurt his brother; But he shall fall into the pit that he digg'd up for other. 16 Thus wrong returneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred, And all the mischief that he wrought shall fall on his own head. 17 I will give thanks to God therefore, that judgeth righteously, And with my song will praise the name of him that is most high. Scripture: Psalm 7