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[O God whose former Mercies make]

Appears in 8 hymnals Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 55156 54345 43215 Used With Text: O GOD, whose former Mercies make

Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Lord, let thy servant now depart Lyrics: 1 LORD, let thy Servant now depart Into thy promis'd Rest; Since my expecting Eyes have been With thy Salvation bless'd; Which, till the Time thy favour'd Saints, And Prophets, only knew, Long since prepar'd, but now set forth In all the Peoples View. 2 A Light, to shew the Heathen World The Way to saving Grace, Also the Light and Glory both Of Isr'el's chosen Race. To FATHER, SON and HOLY GHOST, The GOD, whom we adore, Be Glory, as it was, is now, And shall be ever more. Scripture: Luke 2:29-31 Used With Tune: [Lord, let thy Servant now depart]

O GOD, whose former Mercies make

Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 O GOD, whose former Mercies make My constant Praise thy Due, Hold not thy Peace, but my sad State, With wonted Favours view. For sinful Men, with lying Lips, Deceitful Speeches frame, And with their study'd Slander seek To wound my spotless Fame. 2 Their restless Hatred prompts them still Malicious Lies to spread; And all against my Life combine, By causeless Fury led. Those whom with tender'st Love I us'd, My chief Opposers are; Whilst I, of other Friends bereft, Resort to thee by Pray'r. 3 Since Mischief, for the Good I did, Their strange Reward does prove, And Hatred's the Return they make For undissembled Love, Their guilty Leaders shall be made To some ill Man a Slave; And, when he's try'd, his mortal Foe For his Accuser have. 4 His Guilt, when Sentence is pronounc'd, Shall meet a dreadful Fate, Whilst his rejected Pray'r but serves His Crimes to aggravate, He, snatch'd by some untimely Fate, Sha'n't live out half his Days: Another, by divine Decree, Shall on his Office seize. 5 His Seed shall Orphans be, his Wife A Widow, plung'd in Grief; His vagrant Children beg their Bread, Where none can give Relief. His ill-got Riches shall be made To Usurers a Prey; The Fruit of all his Toil shall be By Strangers borne away. 6 None shall be found that to his Wants Their Mercy will extend, Or to his helpless Orphan Seed The least Assistance lend. A swift Destruction soon shall seize On his unhappy Race; And the next Age his hated Name Shall utterly deface. 7 The Vengeance of his Father's Sins, Upon his Head shall fall; GOD on his Mother's Crimes shall think, And punish him for all. All these. in horrid Order rank'd, Before the LORD shall stand, Till his fierce Anger quite cuts off Their Mem'ry from the Land. Part II 8 Because he never Mercy shew'd, But still the Poor oppress'd; And sought to slay the helpless Man, With heavy Woes distress'd. Therefore the Curse he lov'd to vent, Shall his own Portion prove; And Blessings, which he still abhorr'd, Shall far from him remove. 9 Since he in cursing took such Pride, Like Water it shall spread Through all his Veins, and stick like Oil, With which his Bones are fed. This, like a poison'd Robe, shall still His constant Cov'ring be, Or an envonom'd Belt, from which He never shall be free. 10 Thus shall the LORD reward all those, That ill to me design, That with malicious false Reports Against my Life combine. But for thy glorious Name, O GOD, Do thou deliver me; And for thy gracious Mercy's sake, Preserve and set me free. 11 For I, to utmost Straits reduc'd, Am void of all Relief; My Heart is wounded with Distress, And quite pierc'd through with Grief. I, like an Ev'ning Shade, decline, Which vanishes apace: Like Locusts up and down I'am toss'd, And have no certain Place. 12 My Knees with Fasting are grown weak, My body lank and lean; All that behold me, shake their Heads, And treat me with Disdain. But for thy Mercy's sake, O LORD, Do thou my Foes withstand; That all may see 'tis thy own Act, The Work of thy Right-Hand. 13 Then let them curse, so thou but bless; Let Shame the Portion be Of all that my Destruction seek, While I rejoice in thee. My Foe shall with Disgrace be cloath'd; And, spite of all his Pride, His own Confusion, like a Cloke, The guilty Wretch shall hide. 14 But I to GOD, in grateful Thanks, My chearful Voice will raise; And where the great Assembly meets, Set forth his noble Praise. For him the Poor shall always find Their sure and constant Friend; And he shall from unrighteous Dooms Their guiltless Souls defend. Topics: Description of Slander and Backbiting; Prophecies Of Judas, his Punishment; Prophecies Prophetical Curses against the Enemies and Persecutors of the Chruch Scripture: Psalm 109 Used With Tune: [O God whose former Mercies make]

Vengeance belongs to thee, O GOD

Appears in 5 hymnals Lyrics: 1 Vengeance belongs to thee, O GOD, Thy Justice now disclose; Arise, thou Judge of all the Earth, And crush thy haughty Foes: How long, O LORD, shall sinful Men, Their solemn Triumphs make? How long their wicked Actions boast, And insolently speak? 2 Not only they thy Saints oppress, But unprovok'd, they spill The Widow's and the Stranger's Blood, And helpless Orphans kill: "And yet the LORD shall ne'er perceive, (Profanely thus they speak) "Nor any Notice of our Deeds, "The God of Jacob take." 8 At length, ye stupid Fools, your Wants Endeavour to discern; In Folly will you still proceed, And Wisdom never learn? Can he be deaf who form'd the Ear, Or blind who fram'd the Eye? Shall Earth's great Judge not punish those, Who his known Will defy? 4 He fathoms all the Thoughts of Men, To him their Hearts lie bare; His Eyes survey them all, and see How vain their Counsels are. Part II 5 Blest is the Man whom thou, O LORD, In Kindness dost chastise; And by thy sacred Rules to walk, Most lovingly advise: This Man shall Rest and Safety find. In Seasons of Distress; Whilst GOD prepares a Pit for those, That stubbornly transgress. 6 For GOD will never from his Saints His Favour wholly take; His own Possession and his Lot, He will not quite forsake: The World shall then confess thee just, On all that thou hast done; And those that choose thy upright Ways, Shall in those Paths go on. 7 Who will appear in my Behalf, When wicked Men invade? Or who, when Sinners would oppress, My righteous Cause shall plead? Long since had I in Silence slept, But that the LORD was near, To stay me when I slipt, when sad, My troubled Heart to chear. 8 Wilt thou, who art a GOD most just, Their sinful Throne sustain, Who make the Law a fair Pretence Their wicked Ends to gain? Against the Lives of righteous Men, They form their close Design; And Blood of Innocence to spill, In solemn League combine. 9 But my Defence is firmly plac'd In GOD the LORD most high: He is my Rock, to which I may For Refuge always fly: The LORD shall cause their ill Designs, On their own Heads to fall: He in their Sins shall cut them off, Our GOD shall slay them all. Topics: Description of Unjust Judges; Prophecies Predictions of God's Judgment upon the Ungodly and Wicked; Prophecies Prophetical Curses against the Enemies and Persecutors of the Chruch Scripture: Psalm 94 Used With Tune: [Vengeance belongs to thee, O God]

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To thee, O GOD, we render Praise

Hymnal: The Psalms of David #LXV (1767) Lyrics: 1 To thee, O GOD, we render Praise From Sion, thy blest Seat; Our promis'd Altars there we'll raise, And all our Vows compleat. O thou, who to my humble Pray'r, Didst bend thy list'ning Ear; To thee shall all Mankind repair, And at thy Throne appear. 2 Our Sins, tho' numberless, in vain To stop thy Mercy try, Whilst thou forgiv'st the guilty Stain, And washest out the Dye. Blest is the Man, who, near thee plac'd, Within thy Dwelling lives! Whilst we at humble Distance taste, The Joy thy Temple gives. 3 By wond'rous Acts, O GOD most just, Have we thy Answer found: In the remotest Nations trust, And those whom Seas surround. GOD by His Strength sets fast the Hills, And does his Pow'r engage, With which the stormy Waves he stills, And quells the Peope's Rage. Part II 4 Thou, LORD, dost barb'rous Lands dismay, When they thy Tokens view; With Joy they see the Night and Day, Each others Track pursue. From out thy unexhausted Store, Thy Rain refresh the Ground; Makes Lands, that barren were before, With Corn and Fruits abound. 5 On rising Ridges down it pours, And ev'ry Valley fills; And in the soft prolific Show'rs, A bless'd Increase distills. Thy Goodness does the circling Year, With smiling Plenty crown; And where thy glorious Paths appear, Thy Clouds drop Fatness down. 6 They drop on barren Forests, chang'd By them to Pastures green; The Hills in beauteous Order rang'd, In Robes of Joy are seen, Large Flocks the chearful Downs adorn, The teeming Vallies bring A plenteous Crop of full-ear'd Corn, And seem to laugh and sing. Topics: Description of Happiness of Man; Prophecies Of Jesus Christ, concerning his Sacrifice; Songs of Praise to God the Creation and Providence; Thanksgivings For diverse Mercies shown to the Chruch Scripture: Psalm 65 Languages: English Tune Title: [To thee, O God, we render Praise]

O GOD, whose former Mercies make

Hymnal: The Psalms of David #CIX (1767) Lyrics: 1 O GOD, whose former Mercies make My constant Praise thy Due, Hold not thy Peace, but my sad State, With wonted Favours view. For sinful Men, with lying Lips, Deceitful Speeches frame, And with their study'd Slander seek To wound my spotless Fame. 2 Their restless Hatred prompts them still Malicious Lies to spread; And all against my Life combine, By causeless Fury led. Those whom with tender'st Love I us'd, My chief Opposers are; Whilst I, of other Friends bereft, Resort to thee by Pray'r. 3 Since Mischief, for the Good I did, Their strange Reward does prove, And Hatred's the Return they make For undissembled Love, Their guilty Leaders shall be made To some ill Man a Slave; And, when he's try'd, his mortal Foe For his Accuser have. 4 His Guilt, when Sentence is pronounc'd, Shall meet a dreadful Fate, Whilst his rejected Pray'r but serves His Crimes to aggravate, He, snatch'd by some untimely Fate, Sha'n't live out half his Days: Another, by divine Decree, Shall on his Office seize. 5 His Seed shall Orphans be, his Wife A Widow, plung'd in Grief; His vagrant Children beg their Bread, Where none can give Relief. His ill-got Riches shall be made To Usurers a Prey; The Fruit of all his Toil shall be By Strangers borne away. 6 None shall be found that to his Wants Their Mercy will extend, Or to his helpless Orphan Seed The least Assistance lend. A swift Destruction soon shall seize On his unhappy Race; And the next Age his hated Name Shall utterly deface. 7 The Vengeance of his Father's Sins, Upon his Head shall fall; GOD on his Mother's Crimes shall think, And punish him for all. All these. in horrid Order rank'd, Before the LORD shall stand, Till his fierce Anger quite cuts off Their Mem'ry from the Land. Part II 8 Because he never Mercy shew'd, But still the Poor oppress'd; And sought to slay the helpless Man, With heavy Woes distress'd. Therefore the Curse he lov'd to vent, Shall his own Portion prove; And Blessings, which he still abhorr'd, Shall far from him remove. 9 Since he in cursing took such Pride, Like Water it shall spread Through all his Veins, and stick like Oil, With which his Bones are fed. This, like a poison'd Robe, shall still His constant Cov'ring be, Or an envonom'd Belt, from which He never shall be free. 10 Thus shall the LORD reward all those, That ill to me design, That with malicious false Reports Against my Life combine. But for thy glorious Name, O GOD, Do thou deliver me; And for thy gracious Mercy's sake, Preserve and set me free. 11 For I, to utmost Straits reduc'd, Am void of all Relief; My Heart is wounded with Distress, And quite pierc'd through with Grief. I, like an Ev'ning Shade, decline, Which vanishes apace: Like Locusts up and down I'am toss'd, And have no certain Place. 12 My Knees with Fasting are grown weak, My body lank and lean; All that behold me, shake their Heads, And treat me with Disdain. But for thy Mercy's sake, O LORD, Do thou my Foes withstand; That all may see 'tis thy own Act, The Work of thy Right-Hand. 13 Then let them curse, so thou but bless; Let Shame the Portion be Of all that my Destruction seek, While I rejoice in thee. My Foe shall with Disgrace be cloath'd; And, spite of all his Pride, His own Confusion, like a Cloke, The guilty Wretch shall hide. 14 But I to GOD, in grateful Thanks, My chearful Voice will raise; And where the great Assembly meets, Set forth his noble Praise. For him the Poor shall always find Their sure and constant Friend; And he shall from unrighteous Dooms Their guiltless Souls defend. Topics: Description of Slander and Backbiting; Prophecies Of Judas, his Punishment; Prophecies Prophetical Curses against the Enemies and Persecutors of the Chruch Scripture: Psalm 109 Languages: English Tune Title: [O God whose former Mercies make]

Vengeance belongs to thee, O GOD

Hymnal: The Psalms of David #XCIV (1767) Lyrics: 1 Vengeance belongs to thee, O GOD, Thy Justice now disclose; Arise, thou Judge of all the Earth, And crush thy haughty Foes: How long, O LORD, shall sinful Men, Their solemn Triumphs make? How long their wicked Actions boast, And insolently speak? 2 Not only they thy Saints oppress, But unprovok'd, they spill The Widow's and the Stranger's Blood, And helpless Orphans kill: "And yet the LORD shall ne'er perceive, (Profanely thus they speak) "Nor any Notice of our Deeds, "The God of Jacob take." 8 At length, ye stupid Fools, your Wants Endeavour to discern; In Folly will you still proceed, And Wisdom never learn? Can he be deaf who form'd the Ear, Or blind who fram'd the Eye? Shall Earth's great Judge not punish those, Who his known Will defy? 4 He fathoms all the Thoughts of Men, To him their Hearts lie bare; His Eyes survey them all, and see How vain their Counsels are. Part II 5 Blest is the Man whom thou, O LORD, In Kindness dost chastise; And by thy sacred Rules to walk, Most lovingly advise: This Man shall Rest and Safety find. In Seasons of Distress; Whilst GOD prepares a Pit for those, That stubbornly transgress. 6 For GOD will never from his Saints His Favour wholly take; His own Possession and his Lot, He will not quite forsake: The World shall then confess thee just, On all that thou hast done; And those that choose thy upright Ways, Shall in those Paths go on. 7 Who will appear in my Behalf, When wicked Men invade? Or who, when Sinners would oppress, My righteous Cause shall plead? Long since had I in Silence slept, But that the LORD was near, To stay me when I slipt, when sad, My troubled Heart to chear. 8 Wilt thou, who art a GOD most just, Their sinful Throne sustain, Who make the Law a fair Pretence Their wicked Ends to gain? Against the Lives of righteous Men, They form their close Design; And Blood of Innocence to spill, In solemn League combine. 9 But my Defence is firmly plac'd In GOD the LORD most high: He is my Rock, to which I may For Refuge always fly: The LORD shall cause their ill Designs, On their own Heads to fall: He in their Sins shall cut them off, Our GOD shall slay them all. Topics: Description of Unjust Judges; Prophecies Predictions of God's Judgment upon the Ungodly and Wicked; Prophecies Prophetical Curses against the Enemies and Persecutors of the Chruch Scripture: Psalm 94 Languages: English Tune Title: [Vengeance belongs to thee, O God]