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Lord, be my Judge and thou shalt see

Author: T. S. Appears in 2 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Lord, be my Judge, and thou shalt see my paths be right and plain: I trust in God, and hope that he with strength will me sustain. 2 Prove me, my God, I thee desire, my ways to search and try; As men do prove their gold with fire, my heart and reins espy. 3 Thy loving-kindness in my sight I do behold always; I ever walked in thy truth, and will do all my days. 4 I do not love to haunt or use with men whose deeds are vain; To come in house I do refuse with the deceitful train. 5 I much abhor the wicked sort, their deeds I do despise; I do not once to them resort that hurtful things devise. 6 My hands I wash, and do proceed in works to walk upright; Then to thy altar I make speed, to offer there in sight: 7 That I may speak and preach the praise, that doth belong to thee, And so declare how wondrous ways thou hast been good to me. 8 O God, thy house I love most dear, to me it doth excel; My chief delight is to be near the place where thou dost dwell. 9 O shut not up my soul with them in sin that take their fill, Nor yet my life among those men that seek much blood to spill. 10 For in their hands much mischief is, their lives therewith abound, And nothing else in their right hand, but bribes are to be found. 11 But I resolve in righteousness my time and days to spend: Therefore that I may not transgress, let thy grace me defend. 12 My foot is stay'd for all assays, it standeth well and right: Wherefore to God will I give praise in all the people's sight. Scripture: Psalm 26

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Lord, be my Judge and thou shalt see

Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #XXVI (1790) Lyrics: 1 Lord, be my Judge, and thou shalt see my paths be right and plain: I trust in God, and hope that he with strength will me sustain. 2 Prove me, my God, I thee desire, my ways to search and try; As men do prove their gold with fire, my heart and reins espy. 3 Thy loving-kindness in my sight I do behold always; I ever walked in thy truth, and will do all my days. 4 I do not love to haunt or use with men whose deeds are vain; To come in house I do refuse with the deceitful train. 5 I much abhor the wicked sort, their deeds I do despise; I do not once to them resort that hurtful things devise. 6 My hands I wash, and do proceed in works to walk upright; Then to thy altar I make speed, to offer there in sight: 7 That I may speak and preach the praise, that doth belong to thee, And so declare how wondrous ways thou hast been good to me. 8 O God, thy house I love most dear, to me it doth excel; My chief delight is to be near the place where thou dost dwell. 9 O shut not up my soul with them in sin that take their fill, Nor yet my life among those men that seek much blood to spill. 10 For in their hands much mischief is, their lives therewith abound, And nothing else in their right hand, but bribes are to be found. 11 But I resolve in righteousness my time and days to spend: Therefore that I may not transgress, let thy grace me defend. 12 My foot is stay'd for all assays, it standeth well and right: Wherefore to God will I give praise in all the people's sight. Scripture: Psalm 26 Languages: English

Judica me Domine

Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #12a (1640) First Line: Lord be my Judge and thou shalt see Lyrics: 1 Lord be my Judge, and thou shalt see, my paths be right and plaine: I trust in God, and hope that he will strength me to remaine. 2 Prove me my God, I thee desire, my waies to search and trie: As men do prove their gold with fire, my reines and heart espie. 3 Thy goodnesse laid before my face, I durst behold alwaies: For of thy truth i tread the trace, and will do all my daie. 4 I do not lust to haunt or use, with men whose deeds are vaine: To come in house I do refuse, with the deceitful traine. 5 I much abhorre the wicked sort, their deeds I do despise: I do not once to them resort, that hurtfull things devise. 6 My hands I wash and do proceed, in works to walk upright, Then to thine altar I make speed, to offer there in sight. 7 That I may speak and preach the praise that doth belong to thee: And so declare how wondrous waies thou hast been good to me. 8 O God thy house I love most deare, to me it doth excell: I have delight, and would be neare whereas thy grace doth dwell. 9 O shut not up my soule with them in sin that take their fill: Nor yet my life among those men that seek much blood to spill. 10 Whose hands are heapt with craft and guile, their lives thereof are full And their right hand with wrench & wile for bribes doth pluck and pull. 11 But I in righteousness intend my time and daies to serve: Have mercy Lord, and me defend, so that I do not swerve. 12 My foot is staid for all assaies, it standeth well and right: Therefore to God will I give praise in all the peoples sight. Scripture: Psalm 26 Languages: English

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Thomas Sternhold

1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "Judica me Domine" in The Whole Booke of Psalmes Thomas Sternhold was Groom of the Robes to Henry VIII and Edward VI. With Hopkins, he produced the first English version of the Psalms before alluded to. He completed fifty-one; Hopkins and others composed the remainder. He died in 1549. Thirty-seven of his psalms were edited and published after his death, by his friend Hopkins. The work is entitled "All such Psalms of David as Thomas Sternhold, late Groome of the King's Majestye's Robes, did in his Lyfetime drawe into Englyshe Metre." Of the version annexed to the Prayer Book, Montgomery says: "The merit of faithful adherence to the original has been claimed for this version, and need not to be denied, but it is the resemblance which the dead bear to the living." Wood, in his "Athenae Oxonlenses" (1691, vol. I, p. 62), has the following account of the origin of Sternhold's psalms: "Being a most zealous reformer, and a very strict liver, he became so scandalized at the amorous and obscene songs used in the Court, that he, forsooth, turned into English metre fifty-one of David's psalms, and caused musical notes to be set to them, thinking thereby that the courtiers would sing them instead of their sonnets; but they did not, some few excepted. However, the poetry and music being admirable, and the best that was made and composed in these times, they were thought fit to be sung in all parochial churches." Of Sternhold and Hopkins, old Fuller says: "They were men whose piety was better than their poetry, and they had drunk more of Jordan than of Helicon." Sternhold and Hopkins may be taken as the representatives of the strong tendency to versify Scripture that came with the Reformation into England--a work men eagerly entered on without the talent requisite for its successful accomplishment. The tendency went so far, that even the "Acts of the Apostles" was put into rhyme, and set to music by Dr. Christopher Tye. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872.