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RESIGNATION
Appears in 102 hymnals Tune Sources: From The Southern and Western Pocket Harmonist, p. 54 Incipit: 13532 35165 31351 Used With Text: Psalm IV
RESIGNATION
O God, that art my righteousness
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #IV (1790) Lyrics: 1 O God, that art my righteousness,
Lord, hear me when I call;
Thou hast set me at liberty,
when I was bound in thrall:
2 Have mercy, Lord, therefore on me,
and grant me my request,
For unto thee incessantly
to cry I will not rest.
3 O mortal men, how long will ye
my glory thus despise?
Why wander ye in vanity,
and follow after lies?
4 Know ye that good and godly men
the Lord doth take and chuse;
And when to him I make complaint,
he doth me not refuse.
5 Sin not, but stand in awe therefore,
examine well your heart,
And in your chamber quietly
see ye yourselves convert.
6 Offer to God the sacrifice
of righteousness and praise,
And look that in the living Lord
ye put your trust always.
7 The greater sort crave worldly goods
and riches do embrace;
But, Lord, grant us thy countenance,
thy favour, and thy grace:
8 For thou thereby shalt make my heart
more joyful and more glad,
Than they that of their corn and wine
full great increase have had.
9 In peace therefore lie down will I,
taking my rest and sleep;
For thou only dost me, O Lord,
preserve and safely keep. Scripture: Psalm 4 Languages: English
O God, that art my righteousness
Cum invocarim
Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #2a (1640) First Line: O God that art my righteousnesse Lyrics: 1 O God that art my righteousnesse,
Lord heare me when I call,
Thou hast set me at liberty,
when I was bound and thrall.
2 Have mercy Lord therefore on me,
and grant me my request:
For unto thee uncessantly,
to cry I will not rest.
3 O mortall men how long will ye
my glory thus despise?
why wander ye in vanity,
and follow after lies?
4 Know ye that good and godly men
the Lord doth take and chuse:
And when to him I make my plaint,
he doth me not refute.
5 Sin not, but stand in awe therefore,
examine well your heart:
And in your chamber quietly,
see you your selves convert.
6 Offer to God the sacrifice
of righteousnesse I say:
and look that in the living Lord
you put your trust alway.
7 The greater sort crave worldly goods,
and riches do embrace:
But Lord grant us thy countenence,
thy favor and thy grace.
8 For thou thereby shalt make my heart
more joyfull and more glad,
Then thy that of their corne and wine
full great increase have had.
9 In peace therefore lie down will I
taking my rest and sleep:
For thou onely wilt me O Lord,
alone in safety keep. Scripture: Psalm 4 Languages: English
Cum invocarim
Thomas Sternhold
1449 - 1549 Person Name: T. S. Author of "Cum invocarim" 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.
Thomas Sternhold
