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Genesis 1: Let heav'n arise, let earth appear

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: Let heav'n arise, let earth appear Lyrics: Let heav’n arise, let earth appear, said the Almighty Lord: The heav’n arose, the earth appeared, at his creating word. Thick darkness brooded o’er the deep: God said, ‘Let there be light:’ The light shone forth with smiling ray, and scattered ancient night. He bade the clouds ascend on high; the clouds ascend, and bear A wat’ry treasure to the sky, and float upon the air. The liquid element below was gathered by his hand; The rolling seas together flow, and leave the solid land. With herbs, and plants, and fruitful trees, the new-formed globe he crowned, Ere there was rain to bless the soil, or sun to warm the ground. Then high in heav’n’s resplendent arch he placed two orbs of light, He set the sun to rule the day, the moon to rule the night. Next, from the deep, th’ Almighty King did vital beings frame; Fowls of the air of every wing, and fish of every name. To all the various brutal tribes he gave their wondrous birth; At once the lion and the worm sprung from the teeming earth. Then, chief o’er all his works below, at last was Adam made; His Maker’s image blessed his soul, and glory crowned his head. Fair in th’ Almighty Maker’s eye the whole creation stood. He viewed the fabric he had raised; his word pronounced it good. Scripture: Genesis 1

Genesis 28:20-22: O God of Bethel! by whose hand

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 380 hymnals First Line: O God of Bethel! by whose hand Lyrics: O God of Bethel! by whose hand thy people still are fed; Who through this weary pilgrimage hast all our fathers led: Our vows, our prayers, we now present before thy throne of grace: God of our fathers! be the God of their succeeding race. Through each perplexing path of life our wand’ring footsteps guide; Give us each day our daily bread, and raiment fit provide. O spread thy cov’ring wings around, till all our wand’rings cease, And at our Father’s loved abode our souls arrive in peace. Such blessings from thy gracious hand our humble pray’rs implore; And thou shalt be our chosen God, and portion evermore. Scripture: Genesis 28:20-22

Job 1:21: Naked as from the earth we came

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Naked as from the earth we came Lyrics: Naked as from the earth we came, and entered life at first; Naked we to the earth return, and mix with kindred dust. Whate’er we fondly call our own belongs to heav’n’s great Lord; The blessings lent us for a day are soon to be restored. ’Tis God that lifts our comforts high, or sinks them in the grave: He gives; and, when he takes away, he takes but what he gave. Then, ever blessed be his name! his goodness swelled our store; His justice but resumes its own; ’tis ours still to adore. Scripture: Job 1:21

Psalm 51: After thy loving-kindness, Lord

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 24 hymnals First Line: After thy loving-kindness, Lord Lyrics: 1After thy loving-kindness, Lord, have mercy upon me: For thy compassions great, blot out all mine iniquity. 2Me cleanse from sin, and throughly wash from mine iniquity: 3For my transgressions I confess; my sin I ever see. 4’Gainst thee, thee only, have I sinn’d, in thy sight done this ill; That when thou speak’st thou may’st be just, and clear in judging still. 5Behold, I in iniquity was form’d the womb within; My mother also me conceiv’d in guiltiness and sin. 6Behold, thou in the inward parts with truth delighted art; And wisdom thou shalt make me know within the hidden part. 7Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me, I shall be cleansed so; Yea, wash thou me, and then I shall be whiter than the snow. 8Of gladness and of joyfulness make me to hear the voice; That so these very bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. 9All mine iniquities blot out, thy face hide from my sin. 10Create a clean heart, Lord, renew a right sp’rit me within. 11Cast me not from thy sight, nor take thy Holy Sp’rit away. 12Restore me thy salvation’s joy; with thy free Sp’rit me stay. 13Then will I teach thy ways unto those that transgressors be; And those that sinners are shall then be turned unto thee. 14O God, of my salvation God, me from blood-guiltiness Set free; then shall my tongue aloud sing of thy righteousness. 15My closed lips, O Lord, by thee let them be opened; Then shall thy praises by my mouth abroad be published. 16For thou desir’st not sacrifice, else would I give it thee; Nor wilt thou with burnt-offering at all delighted be. 17A broken spirit is to God a pleasing sacrifice: A broken and a contrite heart, Lord, thou wilt not despise. 18Shew kindness, and do good, O Lord, to Sion, thine own hill: The walls of thy Jerusalem build up of thy good will. 19Then righteous off ‘rings shall thee please, and off ‘rings burnt, which they With whole burnt-off ‘rings, and with calves, shall on thine altar lay. Scripture: Psalm 51

Psalm 66: All lands to God in joyful sounds

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 26 hymnals First Line: All lands to God in joyful sounds Lyrics: 1All lands to God in joyful sounds, aloft your voices raise. 2Sing forth the honour of his name, and glorious make his praise. 3Say unto God, How terrible in all thy works art thou! Through thy great pow’r thy foes to thee shall be constrain’d to bow. 4All on the earth shall worship thee, they shall thy praise proclaim In songs: they shall sing cheerfully unto thy holy name. 5Come, and the works that God hath wrought with admiration see: In’s working to the sons of men most terrible is he. 6Into dry land the sea he turn’d, and they a passage had; Ev’n marching through the flood on foot, there we in him were glad. 7He ruleth ever by his pow’r; his eyes the nations see: O let not the rebellious ones lift up themselves on high. 8Ye people, bless our God; aloud the voice speak of his praise: 9Our soul in life who safe preserves, our foot from sliding stays. 10For thou didst prove and try us, Lord, as men do silver try; 11Brought’st us into the net, and mad’st bands on our loins to lie. 12Thou hast caus’d men ride o’er our heads; and though that we did pass Through fire and water, yet thou brought’st us to a wealthy place. 13I’ll bring burnt off ‘rings to thy house; to thee my vows I’ll pay, 14Which my lips utter’d, my mouth spake, when trouble on me lay. 15Burnt-sacrifices of fat rams with incense I will bring; Of bullocks and of goats I will present an offering. 16All that fear God, come, hear, I’ll tell what he did for my soul. 17I with my mouth unto him cry’d, my tongue did him extol. 18If in my heart I sin regard, the Lord me will not hear: 19But surely God me heard, and to my prayer’s voice gave ear. 20O let the Lord, our gracious God, for ever blessed be, Who turned not my pray’r from him, nor yet his grace from me. Scripture: Psalm 66

Job 8:11-22: The rush may rise where waters flow

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: The rush may rise where waters flow Lyrics: The rush may rise where waters flow, and flags beside the stream; But soon their verdure fades and dies before the scorching beam So is the sinner’s hope cut off; or, if it transient rise, ’Tis like the spider’s airy web, from every breath that flies. Fixed on his house he leans; his house and all its props decay: He holds it fast; but, while he holds, the tott’ring frame gives way. Fair in his garden, to the sun his boughs with verdure smile; And, deeply fixed, his spreading roots unshaken stand a while. 125 But forth the sentence flies from Heav’n, that sweeps him from his place; Which then denies him for its lord, nor owns it knew his face. Lo! this the joy of wicked men, who Heav’n’s high laws despise: They quickly fall; and in their room as quickly others rise. But, for the just, with gracious care, God will his power employ; He’ll teach their lips to sing his praise, and fill their hearts with joy. Scripture: Job 8:11-22

Job 3:17-20: How still and peaceful is the grave!

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 100 hymnals First Line: How still and peaceful is the grave! Lyrics: How still and peaceful is the grave! where, life’s vain tumults past, Th’ appointed house, by Heav’n’s decree, receives us all at last. The wicked there from troubling cease, their passions rage no more; And there the weary pilgrim rests from all the toils he bore. There rest the pris’ners, now released from slavery’s sad abode; No more they hear th’ oppressor’s voice, or dread the tyrant’s rod. There servants, masters, small and great, partake the same repose; And there, in peace, the ashes mix of those who once were foes. All, levelled by the hand of Death, lie sleeping in the tomb; Till God in judgment calls them forth, to meet their final doom. Scripture: Job 3:17-20

Job 14:1-15: Few are thy days, and full of woe

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 31 hymnals First Line: Few are thy days, and full of woe Lyrics: Few are thy days, and full of woe, O man, of woman born! Thy doom is written, ‘Dust thou art, and shalt to dust return.’ Behold the emblem of thy state in flow’rs that bloom and die, Or in the shadow’s fleeting form, that mocks the gazer’s eye. Guilty and frail, how shalt thou stand before thy sov’reign Lord? Can troubled and polluted springs a hallowed stream afford? Determined are the days that fly successive o’er thy head; The numbered hour is on the wing that lays thee with the dead. Great God! afflict not in thy wrath the short allotted span That bounds the few and weary days of pilgrimage to man. All nature dies, and lives again: the flow’r that paints the field, The trees that crown the mountain’s brow, and boughs and blossoms yield, Resign the honours of their form at Winter’s stormy blast, And leave the naked leafless plain a desolated waste. Yet soon reviving plants and flow’rs anew shall deck the plain; The woods shall hear the voice of Spring, and flourish green again. 126 But man forsakes this earthly scene, ah! never to return: Shall any foll’wing spring revive the ashes of the urn? The mighty flood that rolls along its torrents to the main, Can ne’er recall its waters lost from that abyss again. So days, and years, and ages past, descending down to night, Can henceforth never more return back to the gates of light; And man, when laid in lonesome grave, shall sleep in Death’s dark gloom, Until th’ eternal morning wake the slumbers of the tomb, O may the grave become to me the bed of peaceful rest, Whence I shall gladly rise at length, and mingle with the blest! Cheered by this hope, with patient mind, I’ll wait Heav’n’s high decree, Till the appointed period come, when death shall set me free. Scripture: Job 14:1-15

Psalm 1: That man hath perfect blessedness

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 29 hymnals First Line: That man hath perfect blessedness Lyrics: 1That man hath perfect blessedness, who walketh not astray In counsel of ungodly men, nor stands in sinners’ way, Nor sitteth in the scorner’s chair: 2But placeth his delight Upon God’s law, and meditates on his law day and night. 3He shall be like a tree that grows near planted by a river, Which in his season yields his fruit, and his leaf fadeth never: And all he doth shall prosper well. 4The wicked are not so; But like they are unto the chaff, which wind drives to and fro. 5In judgment therefore shall not stand such as ungodly are; Nor in th’ assembly of the just shall wicked men appear. 6For why? the way of godly men unto the Lord is known: Whereas the way of wicked men shall quite be overthrown. Scripture: Psalm 1

Psalm 26: Judge me, O Lord, for I have walk'd

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 17 hymnals First Line: Judge me, O Lord, for I have walk'd Lyrics: 1Judge me, O Lord, for I have walk’d in mine integrity: I trusted also in the Lord; slide therefore shall not I. 2Examine me, and do me prove; try heart and reins, O God: 3For thy love is before mine eyes, thy truth’s paths I have trode. 4With persons vain I have not sat, nor with dissemblers gone: 5Th’ assembly of ill men I hate; to sit with such I shun. 6Mine hands in innocence, O Lord, I’ll wash and purify; So to thine holy altar go, and compass it will I: 7That I, with voice of thanksgiving, may publish and declare, And tell of all thy mighty works, that great and wondrous are. 8The habitation of thy house, Lord, I have loved well; Yea, in that place I do delight where doth thine honour dwell. 9With sinners gather not my soul, and such as blood would spill: 10Whose hands mischievous plots, right hand corrupting bribes do fill. 11But as for me, I will walk on in mine integrity: Do thou redeem me, and, O Lord, be merciful to me. 12My foot upon an even place doth stand with steadfastness: Within the congregations th’ Eternal I will bless. Scripture: Psalm 26