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How should the sons of Adam's race
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 37 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:1-15 Lyrics:
How should the sons of Adam's race
Be pure before their God?
If he contend in righteousness,
We fall beneath his rod.
To vindicate my words and thoughts
I'll make no more pretence;
Not one of all my thousand faults
Can bear a just defence.
Strong is his arm, his heart is wise;
What vain presumers dare
Against their Maker's hand to rise,
Or tempt th' unequal war?
[Mountains, by his almighty wrath,
From their old seats are torn;
He shakes the earth from south to north,
And all her pillars mourn.
He bids the sun forbear to rise,
Th' obedient sun forbears;
His hand with sackcloth spreads the skies,
And seals up all the stars.
He walks upon the stormy sea,
Flies on the stormy wind;
There's none can trace his wondrous way,
Or his dark footsteps find.]
How should the sons of Adam's race
Where wilt thou put thy trust?
Author: Lydia H. Sigourney, 1791-1865 Appears in 28 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:3 Topics: Assurance; Confidence; God Love of; God's power; Trust; Living the Saintly Life Faith and Confidence Used With Tune: FERGUSON
Where wilt thou put thy trust?
All Depends on Our Possessing
Author: Catherine Winkworth, 1827-1878 Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 Appears in 27 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:5-6 Lyrics: 1 All depends on our possessing
God's abundant grace and blessing,
though all earthly wealth depart.
They who trust with faith unshaken
in their God are not forsaken
and will keep a dauntless heart.
2 He who to this day has fed me
and to many joys has led me
is and ever shall be mine.
He who ever gently schools me,
he who daily guides and rules me
will remain my help divine.
3 Many spend their lives in fretting
over trifles and in getting
things that have no solid ground.
I shall strive to win a treasure
that will bring me lasting pleasure
and that now is seldom found.
4 When with sorrow I am stricken,
hope anew my heart will quicken;
all my longing shall be stilled.
To his loving-kindness tender
soul and body I surrender,
for on God alone I build.
5 Well he knows what best to grant me;
all the longing hopes that haunt me,
joy and sorrow, have their day.
I shall doubt his wisdom never;
as God wills, so be it ever;
I commit to him my way.
6 If my days on earth he lengthen,
he my weary soul will strengthen;
all my trust in him I place.
Earthly wealth is not abiding,
like a stream away is gliding;
safe I anchor in his grace. Topics: Trust Used With Tune: ALLES IST AN GOTTES SEGEN Text Sources: Andächtige Haus-Kirche, Nürnberg, 1676
All Depends on Our Possessing
O Day of Peace
Author: Carl P. Daw, Jr., 1944- Meter: 8.8.8.8 D Appears in 22 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:11 First Line: O day of peace that dimly shines Lyrics: 1 O day of peace that dimly shines
through all our hopes and prayers and dreams,
guide us to justice, truth, and love,
delivered from our selfish schemes.
May swords of hate fall from our hands,
our hearts from envy find release,
till by God's grace our warring world
shall see Christ's promised reign of peace.
2 Then shall the wolf dwell with the lamb,
nor shall the fierce devour the small;
as beasts and cattle calmly graze,
a little child shall lead them all.
Then enemies shall learn to love,
all creatures find their true accord;
the hope of peace shall be fulfilled,
for all the earth shall know the Lord.
Used With Tune: JERUSALEM
O Day of Peace
Wait, and Murmur Not!
Author: W. H. Bellamy Appears in 22 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:7 First Line: O weary heart, there is a Home Refrain First Line: Oh, wait, meekly wait, and murmur not! Topics: Sorrow and Affliction Used With Tune: [O weary heart, there is a Home]
Wait, and Murmur Not!
Help us, O Lord, to learn
Author: William Watkins, Reid, b. 1923 Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 20 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:31 Lyrics: 1 Help us, O Lord, to learn
the truths thy word imparts:
to study that thy laws may be
inscribed upon our hearts.
2 Help us, O Lord, to live
the faith which we proclaim,
that all our thoughts and words and deeds
may glorify thy name.
3 Help us, O Lord, to teach
the beauty of thy ways,
that yearning souls may find the Christ,
and sing aloud his praise. Topics: Proper 4 Year B; Proper 17 Year B; Bible Sunday Used With Tune: SANDYS
Help us, O Lord, to learn
Rejoice in God's Saints
Author: Fred Pratt Green Meter: 10.10.11.11 Appears in 19 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:28 First Line: Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days! Lyrics: 1 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days!
A world without saints forgets how to praise.
Their faith in acquiring the habit of prayer,
their depth of adoring, Lord, help us to share.
2 Some march with events to turn them God's way;
some need to withdraw, the better to pray;
some carry the gospel through fire and through flood:
our world is their parish; their purpose is God.
3 Rejoice in those saints, unpraised and unknown,
who bear someone's cross, or shoulder their own;
they share our complaining, our comforts, our cares:
what patience in caring, what courage, is theirs!
4 Rejoice in God's saints, today and all days!
A world without saints forgets how to praise.
In loving, in living, they prove it is true:
their way of self-giving, Lord, leads us to you. Topics: Christian Year All Saints; Community in Christ; Discipleship and Mission Used With Tune: OLD 104TH
Rejoice in God's Saints
By the Waters
Author: William Billings Appears in 18 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:1 First Line: By the waters, the waters of Babylon Lyrics: By the waters, the waters of Babylon
We lay down and wept, and wept for thee, Zion.
We remember, we remember, we remember thee, Zion. Topics: Round; Suffering; Zion Used With Tune: [By the waters, the waters of Babylon]
By the Waters
Commit Thy way, confiding
Appears in 15 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37 Lyrics: 1 Commit Thy way, confiding,
When trials here arise,
To Him whose hand is guiding
The tumults of the skies.
There clouds and tempests, raging,
Have all their path assigned;
Will God, for thee engaging,
No way of safety find?
2 Trust in the Lord! His favor
Will for thy wants provide;
Regard His word!--and ever
Thy work shall safe abide.
When sorrows here o'ertake thee,
And self-inflicted care,
Let not thy God forsake thee!
He listens for thy prayer.
3 Hope on! thou weak believer,
Hope on, and falter not!
He will thy soul deliver
From deeps of troubled thought:
Thy graces He will nourish,
With hope thy heart employ,
Till faith and hope shall flourish
And yield their fruits of joy.
4 The sorrows, Lord, that try us,
Oh bring them to an end!
With needed strength supply us,
From ever foe defend!
Let us, till death pursuing
The best--Thy chosen--way,
In heaven our life renewing,
Praise Thee in endless day. Topics: Man a Saint In Bodily and Spiritual Trouble
Commit Thy way, confiding
We lay us calmly down to sleep
Author: Anon. Appears in 14 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 37:8 Lyrics: 1 We lay us calmly down to sleep
When friendly night is come, and leave
To God the rest;
Whether we wake to smile or weep,
Or wake no more on time's fair shore,
He knoweth best,
He knoweth best.
Refrain:
O Father, bless in love thy child!
We lay us down to sleep.
2 As sinks the sun in western skies
When day is done, and twilight dim
Comes silent on,
So fades the world's most luring prize
On eyes that close in deep repose
Till wakes the dawn,
Till wakes the dawn. [Refrain]
3 Why vex our souls with wearing care?
Why shun the grave, for aching head
So cool and low?
Have we found life so passing fair,
So grand to be, so sweet that we
Should dread to go?
Should dread to go? [Refrain]
4 Some other hand the task can take,
If so it seemeth best, the task
By us begun;
No work for which we need to wake
In joy or grief, for life so brief,
Beneath the sun,
Beneath the sun. [Refrain]
Topics: Bible Songs Special Selections Used With Tune: WE LAY US DOWN TO SLEEP
We lay us calmly down to sleep
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