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The man is blest that hath not bent

Author: Thomas Sternhold Appears in 3 hymnals Used With Tune: [The man is blest that hath not bent]

[The man is blest that hath not bent]

Appears in 1 hymnal Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 13143 65545 13215 Used With Text: Beatus vir

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Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Booke of Psalmes #1a (1640) First Line: The man is blest that hath not bent Lyrics: 1 The man is blest that hath not bent to wicked read his eare: Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sate in scorners chaire. 2 But in the law of God the Lord, doth for his whole delight And in that law doth exercise himself both day and night. 3 He shall be like the tree that growes fast by the rivers side, Which bringeth forth most pleasant fruit in her due time and tide. Whose leafe shall never fade nor fall but flourish still and stand, Even so all things shall prosper well that this man takes in hand. 4 So shall not the ungodly men, they shall be nothing so: But as the dust which from the earth the wind drives to and fro. 5 Therefore shall not the wicked men in judgement stand upright Nor yet the sinners with the just, shall come in place or sight. 6 For why? the way of godly men unto the Lord is known; And eke the way of wicked men shall quite be overthrown. Scripture: Psalm 1 Languages: English Tune Title: [The man is blest that hath not bent]

The man is blest that hath not bent

Hymnal: The Christian Psalter #d538 (1841)

The man is blest that hath not lent

Author: T. S. Hymnal: The Whole Book of Psalms #I (1790) Lyrics: 1 The man is blest that hath not lent to wicked men his ear, Nor led his life as sinners do, nor sat in scorner's chair. 2 But in the law of God the Lord doth set his whole delight, And in the same doth exercise himself both day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree that is planted the rivers nigh, Which in due season bringeth forth its fruit abundantly; 4 Whose leaf shall never fade nor fall, but flourishing shall stand: Ev'n so all things shall prosper well that this man takes in hand. 5 As for ungodly men, with them it shall be nothing so; But as the chaff, which by the wind is driven to and fro. 6 Therefore the wicked men shall not in judgment stand upright, Nor in th' assembly of the just shall sinners come in sight. 7 For why? The way of godly men unto the Lord is known; Whereas the way of wicked men shall quite be overthrown. Scripture: Psalm 1 Languages: English

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Thomas Sternhold

1449 - 1549 Author of "The man is blest that hath not bent" 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.