Appears in 47 hymnals Topics: Confession of our poverty; Poverty confessed; Confession of our poverty; Poverty confessed First Line: I set the Lord before my face Lyrics: 1 "I set the Lord before my face,
"He bears my courage up;
"My heart and tongue their joys express,
"My flesh shall rest in hope.
2 "My spirit, Lord, thou wilt not leave
"Where souls departed are;
"Nor quit my body to the grave
"To see corruption there.
3 "Thou wilt reveal the path of life,
"And raise me to thy throne;
"Thy courts immortal pleasure give,
"Thy presence joys unknown.
4 [Thus, in the name of Christ the Lord,
The holy David sung,
And Providence fulfils the word
Of his prophetic tongue.
5 Jesus, whom every saint adores,
Was crucify'd and slain:
Behold the tomb its prey restores,
Behold he lives again.
6 When shall my feet arise and stand
On heaven's eternal hills?
There sits the Son at God's right hand,
And there the Father smiles.] Scripture: Psalm 16
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