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O render Thanks to God above
Appears in 232 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1 O render Thanks to God above,
The Fountain of eternal Love;
Whose Mercy firm through Ages past
Has stood, and shall for ever last.
2 Who can His mighty Deeds express,
Not only vast, but numberless?
What mortal Eloquence can raise
His Tribute of immortal Praise?
3 Happy are they, and only they,
Who from thy Judgments never stray:
Who know what's right; nor only so,
But always practice what they know.
4 Extend to me that Favour, Lord,
Thou to thy Chosen do'st afford;
When Thou return'st to set them free,
Let thy Salvation visit me.
5 O may I worthy prove to see
Thy Saints in full Prosperity:
That I the joyful Choir may join,
And count thy People's Triumph mine.
6 But ah! can we expect such Grace,
Of Parents vile, the viler Race;
Who their Misdeeds have acted o'er,
And with new Crimes increas'd the Score?
7 Ingrateful, they no longer thought
On all his works in Egypt wrought;
The Red Sea they no sooner view'd,
But they their base Distrust renew'd.
8 Yet he, to vindicate his Name,
Once more to their Deliv'rance came,
To make his sov'reign Pow'r be known,
That he is God, and he alone.
9 To Right and Left, at his Command,
The prating Deep disclos'd her Sand;
Where firm and dry the passage lay,
As through some parch'd and desart Way.
10 Thus rescu'd from their Foes they were,
Who closely press'd upon their Rear,
11 Whose Rage pursu'd 'em to those Waves,
That prov'd the rash Pursuers Graves.
12 The Watry Mountains sudden Fall
O'erwhelm'd proud Pharaoh, Host and all.
This Proof did stupid Isr'el move
To own God's Truth, and praise his Love.
Part II
13 But soon these Wonders they forgot,
And for his Counsel waited not;
14 But lusting in the Wilderness,
Did him with fresh Temptations press.
15 Strong Food at their Request he sent,
But made their Sin their Punishment.
16 Yet still his Saints they did oppose,
The priest and Prophet whom he chose.
17 But Earth, the Quarrel to decide,
Her vengeful Jaws extended wide,
Rash Dathan to her Centre drew,
With proud Abiram's factious Crew.
18 The rest of those who did conspire
To kindle wild Sedition's Fire,
With all their impious Train, became
A Prey to Heav'n's devouring Flame.
19 Near Horeb's Mount, a Calf they made,
And to the molten Image pray'd;
20 Adoring what their hands did frame,
They chang'd their Glory to their Shame.
21 Their God and Saviour they forgot,
And all his works in Egypt wrought;
22 His Signs in Ham's astonish'd Coast,
and where proud Pharaoh's Troops were lost.
23 Thus urg'd, his vengeful Hand he rear'd,
But Moses in the Breach appear'd;
The Saint did for the Rebels pray,
And turn'd Heav'n's kindled Wrath away.
24,25 Yet they his pleasant Land despis'd,
Nor his repeated promise priz'd,
Nor did th' Almighty's Voice obey'
But when God said, Go up, would stay.
26,27 This seal'd their Doom, without Redress
To perish in the Wilderness;
Or else to be by Heathen Hands
O'erthrown and scatter'd thro' the Lands.
Part III
28 Yet unreclaim'd, this stubborn Race
Baal Peor's Worship did embrace;
Became his impious Guests, and fed
On Sacrifices to the Dead.
29 Thus they perished to provoke
God's Vengeance to the final Stroke.
'Tis come:--the deadly Pest is come
To execute their gen'ral Doom
30 But Phineas fir'd with holy Rage,
(Th' Almighty Vengeance to assuage)
Did, by two bold offenders Fall,
Th' Atonement make that ransom'd All.
31 As him a Heav'nly Zeal had mov'd,
So Heav'n the zealous Act approv'd;
To him confirming, and his Race,
The Priesthood he so well did grace.
32 At Meribah God's Wrath they mov'd,
Who Moses for their sakes reprov'd;
33 Whose patient Soul they did provoke,
'Till rashly the meek Prophet spoke.
34 Nor when possess'd of Canaan's land,
Did they perform their Lord's Command,
Nor his commission'd Sword employ
The guilty Nations to destroy.
35 Nor only spar'd the pagan Crew,
But mingling learnt their Vices too;
36 And worship to those Idols paid,
Which them to fatal Snares betray'd.
37,38 To Devils they did sacrifice
Their Children with relentless Eyes;
Approach'd their Altars thro' a Flood
Of their own Sons and Daughters Blood.
No cheaper Victims would appease
Canaan's remorseless Deities;
No Blood her Idols reconcile,
But that which did the Land defile.
Part IV
39 Nor did these savage Cruelties
The hardn'd Reprobates suffice;
For after their Hearts Lusts they went,
And daily did new Crimes invent.
40 But sins of such infernal Hue
God's Wrath against his People drew,
'Till he, their once indulgent Lord,
His own Inheritance abhor'd.
41 He them defenceless did expose
To their insulting heathen Foes;
And made them on the Triumphs wait,
Of those who bare them greatest Hate.
42 Nor thus his Indignation ceas'd;
Their List of Tyrants he increas'd,
'Till they, who God's mild Sway declin'd,
Were made the Vassals of mankind.
43 Yet, when distress'd, they did repent,
His Anger did as oft relent:
But freed, they did his Wrath provoke,
Renew'd their Sins, and he their Yoke.
44 Nor yet implacable he prov'd,
Nor heard their wretched Cries unmov'd;
45 But did to mind his promise bring,
And Mercy's inexhausted Spring.
46 Compassion too he did impart,
Ev'n to their Foes obdurate Heart,
And Pity for their Suff'rings bred
In those who them to Bondage led.
47 Still save us, lord, and Isr'el's Bands
Together bring from Heathen lands;
So to thy Name our Thanks we'll raise,
And ever triumph in thy Praise.
48 Let Isr'el's God be ever bless'd,
His Name eternally confess'd:
Let all His saints, with full Accord,
Sing loud Amen.--Praise ye the Lord.
O render Thanks to God above
Praise Ye the Lord, for He Is Good
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 12 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Topics: Backsliding; Discontent; Hearer Of Prayer, God The; Idolatry; Image Worship; Intercession Of Christians; Israel; Judgment, Divine; Praise To God, Jesus Christ; Providence, Divine; Total Depravity; Wrath Of God; Doxologies Used With Tune: BARRE
Praise Ye the Lord, for He Is Good
Psalm 106: Give praise and thanks unto the Lord
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 16 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Give praise and thanks unto the Lord Lyrics:
1Give praise and thanks unto the Lord,
for bountiful is he;
His tender mercy doth endure
unto eternity.
2God’s mighty works who can express?
or shew forth all his praise?
3Blessed are they that judgment keep,
and justly do always.
4Remember me, Lord, with that love
which thou to thine dost bear;
With thy salvation, O my God,
to visit me draw near:
5That I thy chosen’s good may see,
and in their joy rejoice;
And may with thine inheritance
triumph with cheerful voice.
6We with our fathers sinned have,
and of iniquity
Too long we have the workers been;
we have done wickedly.
7The wonders great, which thou, O Lord,
didst work in Egypt land,
Our fathers, though they saw, yet them
they did not understand:
And they thy mercies’ multitude
kept not in memory;
But at the sea, ev’n the Red sea,
provok’d him grievously.
8Nevertheless he saved them,
ev’n for his own name’s sake;
That so he might to be well known
his mighty power make.
9When he the Red sea did rebuke,
then dried up it was:
Through depths, as through the wilderness,
he safely made them pass.
10From hands of those that hated them
he did his people save;
And from the en’my’s cruel hand
to them redemption gave.
11The waters overwhelm’d their foes;
not one was left alive.
12Then they believ’d his word, and praise
to him in songs did give.
13But soon did they his mighty works
forget unthankfully,
And on his counsel and his will
did not wait patiently;
14But much did lust in wilderness,
and God in desert tempt.
15He gave them what they sought, but to
their soul he leanness sent.
16And against Moses in the camp
their envy did appear;
At Aaron they, the saint of God,
envious also were.
17Therefore the earth did open wide,
and Dathan did devour,
And all Abiram’s company
did cover in that hour.
18Likewise among their company
a fire was kindled then;
And so the hot consuming flame
burnt up these wicked men.
19Upon the hill of Horeb they
an idol-calf did frame,
A molten image they did make,
and worshipped the same.
20And thus their glory, and their God,
most vainly changed they
Into the likeness of an ox
that eateth grass or hay.
21They did forget the mighty God,
that had their saviour been,
By whom such great things brought to pass
they had in Egypt seen.
22In Ham’s land he did wondrous works,
things terrible did he,
When he his mighty hand and arm
stretch’d out at the Red sea.
23Then said he, He would them destroy,
had not, his wrath to stay,
His chosen Moses stood in breach,
that them he should not slay.
24Yea, they despis’d the pleasant land,
believed not his word:
25But in their tents they murmured,
not heark’ning to the Lord.
26Therefore in desert them to slay
he lifted up his hand:
27’Mong nations to o’erthrow their seed,
and scatter in each land.
28They unto Baal-peor did
themselves associate;
The sacrifices of the dead
they did profanely eat.
29Thus, by their lewd inventions,
they did provoke his ire;
And then upon them suddenly
the plague brake in as fire.
30Then Phin’has rose, and justice did,
and so the plague did cease;
31That to all ages counted was
to him for righteousness.
32And at the waters, where they strove,
they did him angry make,
In such sort, that it fared ill
with Moses for their sake:
33Because they there his spirit meek
provoked bitterly,
So that he utter’d with his lips
words unadvisedly.
34Nor, as the Lord commanded them,
did they the nations slay:
35But with the heathen mingled were,
and learn’d of them their way.
36And they their idols serv’d, which did
a snare unto them turn.
37Their sons and daughters they to dev’ls
in sacrifice did burn.
38In their own children’s guiltless blood
their hands they did imbrue,
Whom to Canaan’s idols they
for sacrifices slew:
So was the land defil’d with blood.
39They stain’d with their own way,
And with their own inventions
a whoring they did stray.
40Against his people kindled was
the wrath of God therefore,
Insomuch that he did his own
inheritance abhor.
41He gave them to the heathen’s hand;
their foes did them command.
42Their en’mies them oppress’d, they were
made subject to their hand.
43He many times deliver’d them;
but with their counsel so
They him provok’d, that for their sin
they were brought very low.
44Yet their affliction he beheld,
when he did hear their cry:
45And he for them his covenant
did call to memory;
After his mercies’ multitude
46he did repent: And made
Them to be pity’d of all those
who did them captive lead.
47O Lord our God, us save, and gather
the heathen from among,
That we thy holy name may praise
in a triumphant song.
48Bless’d be Jehovah, Isr’el’s God,
to all eternity:
Let all the people say, Amen.
Praise to the Lord give ye.
Psalm 106: Give praise and thanks unto the Lord
Psalm 106 Part 2
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 6.6.8.6 Appears in 42 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106:12-48 First Line: God of eternal love Lyrics:
God of eternal love,
How fickle are our ways!
And yet how oft did Isr'el prove
Thy constancy of grace!
They saw thy wonders wrought,
And then thy praise they sung;
But soon thy works of power forgot,
And murmured with their tongue.
Now they believe his word
While rocks with rivers flow;
Now with their lusts provoke the Lord,
And he reduced them low.
Yet when they mourned their faults,
He hearkened to their groans,
Brought his own cov'nant to his thoughts,
And called them still his sons.
Their names were in his book,
He saved them from their foes
Oft he chastised, but ne'er forsook
The people that he chose.
Let Isr'el bless the Lord,
Who loved their ancient race
And Christians join the solemn word,
Amen, to all the praise.
Topics: Punishment and salvation; Saints punished and saved; Sin and chastisement of saints; Conversion of Jews and Gentiles; Covenent of grace unchangeable; Love of God unchangeable; Communion with saints; Israel punished and pardoned; Saints conducted to heaven; Saints punished and pardoned
Psalm 106 Part 2
Alleluia (Duncan)
Appears in 459 hymnals Scripture: Psalms 103-106 First Line: Alleluia! Alleluia! Lyrics: Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! Alleluia! Topics: Responses To Prayer; Short refrains; Elements of Worship Praise and Adoration Used With Tune: ALLELUIA DUNCAN Text Sources: Traditional
Alleluia (Duncan)
Sing unto the Lord
Author: Rev. Thomas Kelly (1769-1855) Meter: 8.8.8.5 Appears in 83 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Sing of Jesus, sing for ever Topics: Christ All in All; Christ Grace of; Christ Names of; Gratitude; Praise To Christ Used With Tune: SONG
Sing unto the Lord
It Is Good to Give Thanks to You, Lord
Author: John L. Bell, b. 1949 Meter: 9.9.9.9 with refrain Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Topics: Biblical Names and Places Aaron; Biblical Names and Places Abiram; Biblical Names and Places Baal; Biblical Names and Places Canaan; Biblical Names and Places Dathan; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Ham; Biblical Names and Places Horeb; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Meribah; Biblical Names and Places Moses; Biblical Names and Places Phinehas; Biblical Names and Places Red Sea; Bitterness; Blessing; Doxologies; Elements of Worship Sending; Forgiveness; God's Goodness; God's Love; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Promise of Redemption; Historical Psalms; Idols and Idolatry; Mercy; Obedience; Occasional Services New Year; Prayer; Ten Commandments 2nd Commandment (do not make graven emages); The Fall; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 9-15 Used With Tune: NEW 106TH
It Is Good to Give Thanks to You, Lord
Confitemini Dom.
Author: W. K. Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Praise ye the Lord, for he is good Lyrics: 1 Praise ye the Lord, for he is good,
his mercy dures for aye:
2 Who can expresse his noble acts,
or all his praise display?
3 They blessèd are that judgement keep,
and justly do alway:
With favour of thy people (Lord)
remember me, I pray.
4 And with thy saving health (O Lord)
vouchsafe to visit me:
That I the great felicity
of thine elect may see.
5 And with thy peoples joy I may
a joyfull mind possesse:
And may with thine inheritance
a glorying heart expresse.
6 Both we and eke our fathers all,
have simned every one:
We have committed wickednesse,
and lewdly we have done.
7 The wonders great which thou (O Lord)
hast done in Egypt s land:
Our fathers, though they saw them all,
yet did not understand.
Nor yet thy mercies multitude
did keep in thankfull mind:
But at the sea, yea, the red sea,
rebelled most unkind.
8 Neverthelesse he saved them
for honour of his Name
That he might make his power knowne
and spread abroad his fame.
9 The red sea he did then rebuke,
and forthwith it was dry'd:
And as in wildernesse, so through
the deep he did them guide.
10 He sav'd them from the cruell hand
of their despitefull foe:
And from the enemies hand he did
deliver them also.
The second Part:
11 The waters their oppressours whelm'd,
not one was left alive:
12 Then they believ'd his word, & praise
in song they did him give.
13 But very soon unthankfully
his works they clean forgot:
And for his counsell and his will
they did neglect to wait.
14 But lusted in the wildernesse,
with fond and greedy lust:
And in the desart tempted God,
the stay of all their trust.
15 And then their wanton minds desire
he suffer'd them to have:
But wasting leanenesse therewithall
unto their soules he gave.
16 Then when they lodged in their tents,
at Moses they did grutch:
Aaron the holy of the Lord
so did they envy much.
17 Therefore the earth did open wide,
and Dathan did devoure:
And all Abirams company
did cover in that houre.
18 In their assembly kindled was
a hot consuming fire:
And wasting flame did then burn up
the wicked in his ire.
19 Upon the hill of Horeb they
an idoll calfe did frame:
And there the molten image they
did worship of the same.
20 Into the likenesse of a Calfe
which feedeth on the grasse,
Thus they their glory turn'd and all
their honour did deface;
21 And God their onely Saviour
unkindly they forgot:
Which many great and mighty things
in Egypt land had wrought.
The third Part.
22 And in the land of Ham for them
most wondrous works had done:
And by the red sea dreadfull things
Perform-ed long agone.
23 Therefore for their so shewing them
forgetfull and unkind:
To bring destruction on them all
he purpos'd in his mind:
Had not his chosen Moses stood
before him in the break
To turn his wrath left he on them
with slaughter should him wreak.
24 They did despise the pleasant land,
that he behight to give:
Yea and the words that he had spoke
they did no whit believe.
25 But in their tents with grudging heart
they wickedly repin'd:
Nor to the voice of God the Lord
did give an hark'ning mind.
26 Therefore against them lifted he
his strong revenging hand:
Them to destroy in wildernesse,
ere they should see the land.
27 And to destroy their seed among
the nations with his rod:
And through the countries of the world
to scatter them abroad.
28 To Baal Peor then they did
and joyne themselves also:
And ate the offerings of the dead
so they forsook him tho.
29 Thus with their own inventions
his wrath they did provoke:
And in his sore inkindled wrath
the plague upon them broke.
30 But Phineas stood up with zeal
the sinners vile to slay:
And judgement he did execute,
and then the plague did stay.
The fourth Part.
31 It was imputed unto him
for righteousness that day,
And from thenceforth so counted is
from race to race, I say.
32 At waters eke of Meribah
they did him angry make:
Yea, so far forth that Moses then
was punish'd for their sake.
33 Because they vex'd his spirit so sore,
that in impatient heat
His lips spake unadvisedly,
his fervour was so great.
34 Nor as the Lord commanded them
they slew the people tho:
35 But were among the heathen mix'd,
and learn'd their works also.
36 And did their idols serve which were
their ruine and decay:
37 To fiends their sons and daughters they
they offer up and slay:
38 Yea with unkindly murdering knife
the guiltlesse blood they spilt:
Yet their own sons and daughters blooud
without all cause of guilt.
Whom they to Canaan idols then
offred with wicked hand:
And so with bloud of innocents
defiled was the land.
39 Thus they were stained with the works
of their own filthy way:
And with their own inventions
a whoring they did stray.
40 Therefore against his people was
the Lords wrath kindled sore:
And even his own inheritance
he did abhorre therefore.
41 Into the hands of heathen men
he gave them for a prey:
And made their foes their :ords, whom they
were forced to obey.
The fift Part:
42 Yea and their hatefull enemies
opprest them in their land:
And they were humbly made to stoope
as subjects to their hand.
43 Full oftentimes from thrall had he
delivered them before:
But with their counsels they to wrath
provok'd him evermore.
Therefore they by their wickednesse
were brought full low to lie:
44 Yet when he saw them in distresse.
he hearkened to their cry.
45 He cal'd to mind his covenant,
which he to them had swore:
And by his mercies multitude
repented him therefore.
46 And favour he them made to find,
before the sight of those
That led them captive from their land,
when erst they were their foes.
47 Save us O Lord that art our God,
save us (O Lord) we pray:
And from among the heathen folk,
Lord gather us away.
48 That we may spread the noble praise
of thy most holy Name:
That we may glory in thy praise,
and sounding of thy fame.
49 The Lord the God of Israel
be blest for evermore:
Let all the people say Amen.
praise ye the Lord therefore.
Confitemini Dom.
Your Endless Love, Your Mighty Acts (Psalm 106)
Author: Martin E. Leckebusch Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Your endless love, your mighty acts Topics: God's Covenant with Israel; Love of God for Us; Mercy Used With Tune: ST. MAGNUS
Your Endless Love, Your Mighty Acts (Psalm 106)
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Author: William Williams; Peter Williams; John Williams Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 1,822 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1 Guide me, O thou great Jehovah,
Pilgrim through this barren land;
I am weak, but thou art mighty;
Hold me with thy powerful hand;
Bread of heaven, Bread of heaven,
Feed me till I want no more,
Feed me till I want no more.
2 Open now the crystal fountain,
Whence the healing stream doth flow;
Let the fire and cloudy pillar
Lead me all my journey through;
Strong Deliverer, strong Deliverer,
Be thou still my strength and shield,
Be Thou still my strength and shield.
3 When I tread the verge of Jordan,
Bid my anxious fears subside;
Death of deaths, and hell's Destruction,
Land me safe on Canaan's side;
Songs of praises, songs of praises
I will ever give to thee,
I will ever give to thee.
Amen. Topics: Service for the Lord's Day After Old Testament Lesson; Service for the Lord's Day Conclusion of Worship; Acts of the Church Confirmation; Acts of the Church Ordination; Christian Year Advent; Other Observances Mission; Other Observances World Peace Used With Tune: CWM RHONDDA
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Psalm 106:1-12, 19-23, 47-48
Author: Folliot S. Pierpoint Appears in 632 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Lord of all, to thee we raise Refrain First Line: Lord of all, to thee we raise Lyrics: Response: (General)
Lord of all, to thee we raise this our hymn of grateful praise. Topics: Psalter Used With Tune: [Lord of all, to thee we raise]
Psalm 106:1-12, 19-23, 47-48
His Way with Thee
Author: C. S. N. Appears in 227 hymnals Scripture: Psalms 1-150 First Line: Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure and good Refrain First Line: His power can make you what you ought to be Used With Tune: [Would you live for Jesus, and be always pure and good]
His Way with Thee
To God, the great, the ever blest
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 87 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: To God the great, the ever blessed,
let songs of honor be addressed;
all mercy, God, comes from your hands!
I give the thanks your love demands.
Who knows the wonders of your ways?
Lord, I would sing your boundless praise!
How blest are all who love you still,
remaining faithful to your will.
O, may I see your saints rejoice,
and aid their triumphs with my voice!
This is my glory, Lord above,
to still be faithful to your love.
Used With Tune: SHANDON Text Sources: Psalm 106, alt.
To God, the great, the ever blest
Not Alone for Mighty Empire
Author: William P. Merrill Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 85 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1 Not alone for mighty empire
Stretching far o'er land and sea,
Not alone for bounteous harvests,
Lift we up our hearts to Thee.
Standing in the living present,
Memory and hope between,
Lord, we would with deep thanksgiving
Praise Thee most for things unseen.
2 Not for battleship and fortress,
Not for conquests of the sword,
But for conquests of the spirit
Give we thanks to Thee, O Lord;
For the heritage of freedom,
For the home, the church, the school,
For the open door to manhood
In a land the people rule.
3 For the armies of the faithful,
Souls that passed and left no name;
For the glory that illumines
Patriot lives of deathless fame;
For our prophets and apostles,
Loyal to the living Word,
For all heroes of the Spirit,
Give we thanks to Thee, O Lord.
4 God of justice, save the people
From the clash of race and creed,
From the strife of class and faction,
Make our nation free indeed.
Keep her faith in simple manhood
Strong as when her life began,
Till it find its full fruition
In the brotherhood of man.
Amen. Used With Tune: AUSTRIAN HYMN
Not Alone for Mighty Empire
Bless His Holy Name
Author: Andraé Crouch Appears in 37 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106:21 First Line: Bless the Lord, O my soul Topics: Praise of Christ; Scripture Songs; Worship; Praise of Christ; Scripture Songs; Worship Used With Tune: [Bless the Lord, O my soul]
Bless His Holy Name
Must all the charms of nature then
Author: Isaac Watts Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 27 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106:12-48 Lyrics:
Must all the charms of nature, then,
So hopeless to salvation prove?
Can hell demand, can heav'n condemn,
The man whom Jesus deigns to love?
The man who sought the ways of truth,
Paid friends and neighbors all their due;
A modest, sober, lovely youth,
And thought he wanted nothing new.
But mark the change; thus spake the Lord-
"Come, part with earth for heav'n today:"
The youth, astonished at the word,
In silent sadness went his way.
Poor virtues that he boasted so,
This test unable to endure;
Let Christ, and grace, and glory go,
To make his land and money sure!
Ah, foolish choice of treasures here!
Ah, fatal love of tempting gold!
Must this base world be bought so dear?
Are life and heav'n so cheaply sold?
In vain the charms of nature shine,
If this vile passion govern me:
Transform my soul, O love divine!
And make me part with all for thee.
Topics: Punishment and salvation; Saints punished and saved; Sin and chastisement of saints; Conversion of Jews and Gentiles; Covenent of grace unchangeable; Love of God unchangeable; Communion with saints; Israel punished and pardoned; Saints conducted to heaven; Saints punished and pardoned
Must all the charms of nature then
Blessed, blessed be Jehovah
Appears in 6 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Topics: Doxologies Used With Tune: MILAN
Blessed, blessed be Jehovah
Praise the LORD! Sing Hallelujah
Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Praise the LORD! Sing hallelujah! Lyrics: 1 Praise the LORD! Sing hallelujah!
Come, our great Redeemer praise.
I will sing the glorious praises
of my God through all my days.
Put no confidence in princes,
nor on human help depend.
They shall die, to dust returning;
all their thoughts and plans shall end.
2 Happy are the ones professing
Jacob's God to be their aid.
They are blest whose hope of blessing
on the LORD their God is stayed.
Heaven and earth the LORD created,
seas and all that they contain.
He delivers from oppression;
righteousness he will maintain.
3 Food he daily gives the hungry,
sets the mourning prisoner free,
raises those bowed down with anguish,
makes the sightless eyes to see.
God our Savior loves the righteous,
and the stranger he befriends,
helps the orphan and the widow,
judgment on the wicked sends.
4 Praise the LORD! Sing hallelujah!
Come, our great Redeemer praise.
I will sing the glorious praises
of my God through all my days.
Over all God reigns forever;
through all ages he is King.
Unto him, your God, O Zion,
joyful hallelujahs sing. Topics: Biblical Names and Places Jacob; God as King; God's Reign; Music and Singing; Elements of Worship Opening of Worship: Called And Gathered Used With Tune: RIPLEY Text Sources: Psalter, 1887, alt.
Praise the LORD! Sing Hallelujah
Doxology
Appears in 5 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Bless'd be Jehovah, Israel's God Lyrics: Bless’d be Jehovah, Israel’s God,
To all eternity;
Let all the people say, Amen;
Let all the people say, Amen;
Let all the people say, Amen;
Praise to the Lord give ye. Used With Tune: [Bless’d be Jehovah, Israel’s God]
Doxology
Sin and Divine Patience
Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 3 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Their God and Saviour they forgot Lyrics: 1 Their God and Saviour they forgot,
Their helper and their stay,
But Moses plead the promised grace
And turned God's wrath away.
2 Yea, they despised the pleasant land,
The promised land of God,
And tempted Him to make them fall
And scatter them abroad.
3 They sacrificed to heathen gods,
And God their sin repaid;
Then holy wrath avenged the wrong,
And so the plague was stayed.
4 The Lord approved the righteous act
Of him who sin abhorred,
And honored him for evermore
With just and great reward.
5 By wicked strife they angered God,
His wrath they did provoke;
And, stirred by their rebellious cries,
Their leader rashly spoke.
6 Ensnared, they served the heathen gods,
And by them were beguiled;
The blood of children sacrificed
The very land defiled.
7 Against His own inheritance
Jehovah's wrath arose,
His chosen people He condemned
To serve their heathen foes.
8 Though from their harsh oppressors' hand
Ofttimes He set them free,
Rebellious still, they were brought low
In their iniquity.
9 When unto God they cried, he heard
And turned again His face,
In boundless love remembering
The covenant of His grace.
10 He even touched their captors' hearts,
And made their very foes
Compassionate and pitiful
To feel his people's woes.
11 Save us, O Lord, our gracious God,
From alien lands reclaim
That we may triumph in Thy praise
And bless Thy holy Name.
12 Blessed be the Lord our covenant God,
All praise to Him accord;
Let all the people say, Amen.
Praise ye, praise ye the Lord. Topics: Afflictions Deliverance from; Afflictions For sin; Afflictions From God; Afflictions Purpose of; Anger of God Righteous; Backsliding; Church Saved by Grace; Church Unfaithful; Covenant False; Covenant Keeping; Covenant Of God; Disobedience; Doxologies; Divine Election; Faith Blessedness of; Glory of God In Providence; God Denial of; God Love and Mercy; Gospel Fulness of ; Gospel Invitations of ; Idolatry; Ingratitude To God; Judgments On Nations; Miracles; Missions Need for; Praise Calls to; Prayer Answers to; Prayer For Christ's Sake; Prayer For Deliverance from Trouble; Salvation From Sin and Trouble; Sin Hindrance to Communion with God; Thanksgiving Declared; Thanksgiving For God's Mercies; Unbelief Used With Tune: NOTTINGHAM
Sin and Divine Patience
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1 SiNG HALLELUJAH! to the LORD
give thanks; for good is He,
Because his mercy doth endure
ev'n to eternity,
2 Who can the LORD's great pow'rs declare,
or set forth all his praise?
3 Blessed are they who judgment keep,
and justice do always.
4 LORD mind me with the favour Thou
dost to thy people bear;
And with thy great salvation me
to visit now appear.
5 That I may fee thy nation's good
which Thou hast made thy choice;
And glory with thy heritage,
and in their joy rejoyce.
[2 Part]
6 We with our fathers sinned have,
have sinned ev'ry one,
Have trespassed exceedingly,
and wickedly have done.
7 The mighty wonders Thou hast wrought
in the Egyptian land.
Our fathers saw, but did not mind
or duly understand:
Nor did they mind the multitude
of thy benignities;
But at the sea, at the red sea,
they made thy wrath to rise.
8 Nevertheless He saved them
ev'n for his own name's sake;
That thereby He his sov'reign pow'r
most manifest might make.
9 For He the mighty sea rebuk'd,
and made before Him fly;
And through the depths He led them safe,
as through a desart dry.
10 From his high hand who hated them
He timely did them save;
And from the hand of mighty foes
a full redemption gave.
11 The waters overwhelm'd their foes,
not one was left alive;
12 Then they his word believ'd, and praise
to Him in songs did give.
[3 Part]
13 Yet soon did they his mighty works
ungratefully forget;
Nor for his sov'reign counsel would
with due submission wait.
14 But journeying in the wilderness,
they lusted shamefully;
And in the desart would presume
the glorious God to try.
15 And yet the things which they requir'd
He gave them to the full;
But leaness at the same time sent
into their pining soul.
16 They envy'd Moses in' the camp,
tho' their great prophet known;
And with him Aaron their high priest,
JEHOVAH's holy one.
17 The earth her mouth then op'ned wide,
and Dathan did devour,
With proud Abiram's company,
and hid with dreadful roar.
18 Among the rest who mutiny'd,
a fire was kindled then,
Whose flame pursu'd and soon consum'd,
those daring impious men.
19 They made a calf of melted gold,
while they at Horeb were;
And stupidly they worshipped
the molten image there.
20 Thus they most foolishly exchang'd
Him that their glory was,
For the base likeness of an ox
that feeding lives on grass.
21 They quite forgot the glorious God,
who had their saviour been;
By whom such mighty things perform'd
they had in Egypt seen:
22 The wondrous works which He had done
in Ham's astonish'd land,
The fearful things at the red sea
wrought by his sov'reign hand.
23 He said then, He would them destroy,
if Moses in that day
Had not stood in the dreadful breach,
and turn'd his wrath away.
[4 Part]
24. Yea they despis'd the pleasant land,
and would not trust his word;
25 But murm'ring in their tents, refus'd
to hearken to the LORD.
26 To make them in the desart fall,
He lifted up his hand;
27 Among the nations to disperse
their race in every land.
28 To Baal-peor they join'd themselves,
made off'rings to the dead;
29 With these devices Him provok'd;
the plague among them spread.
30 But Phineas rose, and judgment wrought,
whereon the plague did cease:
31 Which to all ages is to Him
accounted righteousness.
32 Yea at the streams of Meribah
they there incens'd Him so,
That ev'n with Moses for their sakes
it grievously did go:
33 Their provocations were so great,
his patient spirit stir'd,
That with his lips he spake in haste
an unadvised word.
[5 Part]
34 They did not, at the LORD's command,
the impious nations slay;
35 But with the heathen mix'd themselves,
and learnt their works and way.
36 They serv'd their idols, which to them
a fatal snare became;
37 Their sons and daughters sacrific'd
to devils in the flame.
38 The blood of innocents they shed,
to Canaan's idols vile;
Their children's blood they sacrific'd,
and did the land defile.
39 Then with their detestable works
themselves polluted they;
And with devices of their own
a whoring went astray.
40 JEHOVAH's wrath was kindled then
against his people more;
So that his own inheritance
He greatly did abhor,
41 He gave them to the heathen's pow'r,
into their haters hand:
42 Their foes oppress'd them, and they were
enslav'd to their command.
43 He many a time deliver'd them;
but with their councils so
They Him provok'd, that for their sins
again He brought them low.
44 Yet He regarded their distress,
whene'r He heard their cry;
45 And He his covenant for them
recall'd to memory:
46 Yea, in his mercies multitude
did He repent; and made
Them to be pitied of all those
who them had captive led.
47 O save us in this darksome day,
O LORD our mighty God;
Thy people gather where dispers'd,
in gentile lands abroad:
That so we to thy holy name
may render thanks always,
And all together joyfully,
may triumph in thy praise.
48 The LORD, the God of Israel;
be bless'd eternally;
And let all people say, AMEN;
sing HALLELUJAH ye.
Sing Hallelujah to the Lord
Praise ye the LORD, O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good
Appears in 2 hymnals Scripture: Psalm 106 Topics: Praise and Thanksgiving
Praise ye the LORD, O give thanks to the LORD, for He is good
O Praise the LORD, for He Is Good
Author: Marie J. Post Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106 Topics: Doxologies; Biblical Names & Places Aaron; Biblical Names & Places Egypt; Biblical Names & Places Moses; New Year - Old Year; Profession of Faith; Biblical Names & Places Aaron; Biblical Names & Places Egypt; Biblical Names & Places Moses; Close of Worship; Doxologies; New Year - Old Year; Profession of Faith Used With Tune: SEDGWICK
O Praise the LORD, for He Is Good
Praise ye the Lord, give Thanks to him
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1. Praise ye the Lord, give Thanks to him;
He's good; his Mercy ne'er decays.
2. Who can his mighty Asts declare?
Or who can shew forth all his Praise?
3. Blessed are they that keep his Laws;
And always do the Thing that's right.
4. Think on me Lord, and Favour me,
As one in whom thou dost delight.
5. With thy Salvation visit me,
To see thy Chosen's good Advance;
That I thy Nations Joy may share,
Glory with thine Inheritance.
6. We, from our Fathers Days, have err'd,
And, like them, from thy Paths have gone;
Our Deeds have been perversly wrong,
Against thee impiously we've done.
7. Thy Wonders, they in Egypt saw,
Our Fathers did not understand;
Thy many Mercies they forgot,
Provok'd Thee, at the Red Sea's strand.
8. Yet them he sav'd, for his Name's sake;
The Fame of's mighty Pow'r to spread,
9. He check'd the Sea, and up it dry'd;
And them, thro' Deeps, as Plains, he led.
10. So, from the Malice of their Foes,
Who close pursu'd, he them did save;
And from their En'mies vengeful Arm,
To them compleat Redemption gave.
11. But o'er their Foes the Waters rowl'd;
Not one of them escap'd alive.
12. Then they, a while, believ'd his Word,
And Praise, in Songs, to him did give.
Second Part
13. Bat soon they all his Works forgot;
Nor would they for his Counsel wait.
14. They lusted in the Wilderness;
And tempted God, by asking Meat.
15. He granted their too rash Request;
But Leanness in their Soul was thrown.
16. They envy'd Moses in the Camp,
And A'ron God's choice holy one.
1 7. The gaping Earth Dathan devour'd;
Clos'd on Abiram's, factious Crew.
18. The Fire on their Companions seiz'd;
The Flame their bold Abettors slew.
19. Then they a Calf, in Horeb made;
And did the Idol Homage pay:
20. Their Glory, to the Likeness, chang'd.
Of a dull Ox, that eateth Hay.
21. Their God, and Saviour, they forgot;
Who had, in Egypt great Things done:
22. Wrought Wonders, in the Land of Ham;
His Terrors, by the Red Sea, shown.
23. He said, he would destroy them quite;
But Moses, then, before him stood.
And fill'd the Breach, to turn his Wrath;
Lest he his Threat'ning should make good.
24. Yea; they the pleasant Land despis'd;
And gave no Credit to his Word:
25. But murmur'd in their Tents; nor heard
The Voice of their most gracious Lord.
26. Then sware he, there, they ne'er should come;
But perish in the Desert Sands:
27. Nations should prey upon their Seed,
And scatter them in distant Lands.
Third Part
28. Yea, they to Baal-Peor joyn'd;
And eat the Off'rings of the dead.
29. These Works did so provoke his Wrath,
The dreadful Plague among them spread.
30. Then Phineas rose, and Judgment wro't;
The Plague was stay'd, the guilty slain.
31. This Justice was in him esteem'd;
His Race the high Rewards did gain.
32. They anger'd him, at Meribah;
That Moses suffer'd for their Sake.
33. For they his Spirit so provok'd,
With unadvised Lips he spake.
34. The Nations they did not destroy;
As God had given them Command.
35. But mingled with the Heathen were,
And learnt the Manners of their Land.
36. Yea, their vain Idol Gods they serv'd;
Which them, in woful Mischief, snar'd.
37. In Sacrifice to Daemons, they,
Their Offspring, cruelly prepar'd.
38. And guiltless Blood they shed; the Blood
Of their own Sons, and Daughters, slain
In Sacrifice to Canaan's Gods;
The Gore did the whole Land distain.
39. Thus greatly were their Souls defil'd,
While they on their own Works were bent;
After their own Inventions, they,
With lustful Hearts, a whoring went.
Fourth Part
40. For this, against his People, flam'd.
The Indignation of the Lord;
That those who, his Inheritance,
Before had been, he now abhor'd.
41. He gave them up to heathen Pow'rs;
Their Haters rul'd with Rods of Steel.
42. Their Foes then greatly them oppress'd;
And made them subject to their Will.
43. He sav'd them oft, but they as oft.
Thro' their bad Counsels, did rebell,
And mov'd his Wrath; until, beneath
The Weight of their own Crimes, they fell.
44. Yet, in the Time of their Distrefss,
His kind Regards to them were shown;
His Bowels with Compassion mov'd.
When e'er he heard their piteous Moan.
45. His Cov'nant he recall'd to Mind;
In his great Goodness did relent.
46. He made them pitied be of all,
Where they, as Captives had been sent.
47. Now save thou us, O Lord, our God,
And from among the Heathen bring;
That we may thank thine holy Name,
And Songs of Praises to Thee sing.
48. Bless'd be Jehovah, Isr'el's God,
Eternally; with one Accord,
Let all the People hearty join,
And say. Amen. Praise ye the Lord.
Praise ye the Lord, give Thanks to him
The Lord praise, to the Lord give thanks
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1 The Lord praise, to the Lord give thanks^
Because that good is he:
Because his mercy doth endure
To perpetuity.
2 Who can the Lord's strong acts forth tell,
Or all his praise display?
3 Bless'd they that judgment keep, and who
Doth righteousness alway.
4 With favour of thy people, Lord,
Do thou remember me:
Me visit with thy saving health,
That com«s alone from thee,
5 To see thy chosen's good, and in
Thy nation's joy rejoice;
That I with thine inheritance
May lift a glorious voice.
6 As our forefathers did, so we
Have sinned wilfully:
We practic'd have iniquity,
And acted wickedly.
[2]
7 Our fathers learn'd not wonders thine
In Egypt, did not mind
Thy many mercies: but at sea,
Red sea, rebell'd unkind.
8 Nevertheless he saved them,
Ev'n for his own name's sake,
That thereby he, his mighty pow'r
Most manifest might make.
9 The red-sea he rebuk'd also,
And up the same was dry'd:
So them, as through the wilderness,
He through the sea did guide,
10 And from his hand that hated them
He freely did them save:
He from the en'mies hand likewise
To them redemption gave.
11 The waters overwhelm'd their foes;
Of them was left not one.
12 They did believe his word, they sang
His praises thereupon.
[3]
13 They, soon forgat his works, nor would
They for his counsel stay.
14 But much in wilderness did lust,
In desart God try'd they.
15 Then he their fruit them gave, but sent
Leanness their soul into.
16 They envy'd Moses in the camp,
Aaron God's saint also.
17 The open'd earth Dathan devour'd,
And hid Abiram's troop.
18 And fire was kindled in their rout,
Flame burnt the wicked up.
19 In Horeb made a molten calf
Ador'd the image base:
20 They chang'd their glory to be like
An ox that eateth grass.
21 They God forgot their saviour who
In Egypt did great acts.
22 Works wonders in the land of Ham,
By red-sea dreadful facts.
23 Then said he'd them destroy, but that
His chosen Moses then
Stood in the breach 'fore him to turn
His wrath from wasting them.
[4]
24 Yet they, despis'd the pleasant land,
Nor did believe his word:
25 But murmur'd in their tents, the voice:
They heard not of the Lord.
26 To make them fall in desart then
Against them lift his hand:
27 Nations among disperse their seed
And fan them in the land.
28 Then to Ba'1-Peer ihey join'd themselves
Eat off'ring of the dead.
29 Their works his wrath did thus provoke
The plague among them spread.
30 Then Phineas rose and judgment wro't
And so the plague did stay.
31 Which justice to him counted was
To age and age for aye.
[5]
32 At waters of contention
They angred him also,
So that with Moses for their sake
It very ill did go.
33 Because his spirit they provok'd
With's lips he spake in haste.
34 The nations, as the Lord them charg'd
They wholly did not waste.
35 But were among the heathen mix'd,
And learn'd their works to do.
32 And did their idols serve, which them
Become a snare unto.
37 Yea unto devils they their sons,
And daughters offered.
38 And guiltless blood, blood of their sons
And of their daughters shed.
Whom unto Cana's idols they
Gave up in sacrifice:
The land with blood abundantly
Polluted was likewife.
39 Thus with the works were they defii'd
Which they themselves had done;
And they did go a whoring with
Inventions of their own.
[6]
40 Then kindled was against his folk
The anger of the Lord,
So that he the inheritance,
Which was his own abhorr'd
41 So gave he them to heathen's handm
Their haters tjeir lords were.
42 Their foes oppressed them and made
Them their hard yoke to bear.
43 Oft he deliver'd them, but they
Provok'd him bitterly
With their own counsels, and grew low
Through their iniquity
44 Yet he regarded their distress
When he heard their complaint:
45 And he did to remembrance call
For them his covenant.
And in his many mercies did
46 Repent. And made them be
Pity'd of all who led them forth
Into captivity.
47 Save us, O Lord our God, and us,
From heathen's gathering raise
To give thanks to thy holy name,
To triumph in thy praise.
41 The Lord the God of Israel,
From aye to aye blest be ;
And let all people say Amen,
O praise Jehovah ye.
The Lord praise, to the Lord give thanks
Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 (A Responsorial Setting)
Author: Johann J. Schütz; Frances Cox Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: Cast every idol from its throne Topics: Biblical Names and Places Aaron; Biblical Names and Places Abiram; Biblical Names and Places Baal; Biblical Names and Places Baal; Biblical Names and Places Dathan; Biblical Names and Places Egypt; Biblical Names and Places Exodus; Biblical Names and Places Ham; Biblical Names and Places Horeb; Biblical Names and Places Israel; Biblical Names and Places Meribah; Biblical Names and Places Moses; Biblical Names and Places Phinehas; Biblical Names and Places Red Sea; Bitterness; Blessing; Doxologies; Elements of Worship Sending; Forgiveness; God's Goodness; God's Love; God's People (flock, sheep); God's Promise of Redemption; Historical Psalms; Idols and Idolatry; Mercy; Obedience; Occasional Services New Year; Prayer; Ten Commandments 2nd Commandment (do not make graven emages); The Fall; Year A, Ordinary Time after Pentecost, October 9-15 Used With Tune: MIT FREUDEN ZART (fragment) Text Sources: Evangelical Lutheran Worship (Psalm text)
Psalm 106:1-6, 19-23 (A Responsorial Setting)
With thankful hymns address the mighty Lord
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106 Lyrics: 1 With thankful hymns address the mighty Lord;
With songs of joy be heav'ns high king ador'd;
For his beneficence to all extends;
His great, his glorious mercy never ends.
2 His wond'rous acts what eloquence displays?
What tongue can utter all his pow'r, his praise?
3 Thrice happy they, that will his law observe,
That love his law, nor from it's dictates swerve!
4 Me with that gracious mercy view, O God,
Which to thy chosen thou hast constant shew'd;
Look on me still with an indulgent eye,
5 That I thy people's blessings may enjoy,
May long in their felicity rejoice,
And to thy glory tune my grateful voice.
6 Stiff and rebellious, like our fires, we prove,
And pay with base ingratitude thy love,
Plunge into horrid mischiefs, and forget
How vast thy pow'r, thy clemency how great;
7 So they, from hard, from cruel bondage freed,
Them to the sea when humble Moses led,
Reflected not the wonders of thy hand,
Thy miracles in Egypt's idol-land;
But, obstinately blind, in murmurs rose
Against the leader heav'n himself had chose.
8 Yet his resentment still our God forbore;
That all might know and tremble at his pow'r;
9 He his dread mandate to the waters gave;
They heard, and strait subsided ev'ry wave;
Erect, they rose--he spoke, and they obey'd--
By his directing hand his people led,
10 Pass o'er secure, and gain the farther shore,
And soon the rageful tyrant fear no more.
11 For, as the hostile bands, resolv'd, pursue,
The waves returning on their ranks they view;
Whelm'd in the deep, they die--not one remains;--
12 But oh! amid the tribes what transport reigns?
How do they now believe? and how they praise
Their great Protector-God in thankful lays?
13 But all their dangers, all their fears remov'd,
Again rebellious to this God they prov'd;
Soon his stupendous miracles forgot,
Nor on his pow'r, nor on his mercies thought.
14 Urg'd by their lusts, their murmurs soon they breathe,
Make insolent demands, and raise his wrath.
15 Their insolent demands they strait obtain'd;
Down from high heav'n the feather'd food he rain'd;
But while the cates the greedy tribes devour,
Adown their throats they sure perdition pour;
They eat and die--provok'd, their angry God
With fatal fury, with dread vengeance glow'd.
16 But nought, when men are wilful in offence.
Avails or vengeance or beneficence;
Enflam'd with envy, still their murmurs rose,
And Moses and his brother they oppose.
17 Their impious crimes dire punishments await;
Her jaws earth opens, and devours them strait;
18 Consuming fire pours sudden from the sky,
And all th' abettors and their race destroy.
19 Still they're perverse; they now their Lord forsake,
On Horeb's mount an imag'd calf they make;
Tore this they fall, and adoration pay;
Absurd resemblance of what feeds on hay!
21 Ingrate! their great redeemer to forget,
How he secur'd from bondage their retreat;
22 What gracious mercies to them he had shewn,
What glorious wonders he had for them done.
23 'Twas then his dire resentment 'gainst them rag'd,
Which had the faithful Moses not assuag'd,
Had he not stood between their God and them,
Extinct had been their race, and lost their name.
24 Sure now their harden'd hearts were struck with dread;
Sure now with ease they by their chief were led
Ah no! by punishment they're yet unaw'd,
Again they murmur, and distrust their God.
Against their leader and their God they rise;
Swift o'er the camp the winged tumult flies;
The joyous feats he promis'd them, they scorn,
And to his mercies make a base return.
26 Th' All-high, provok'd, rais'd then his mighty hand,
Resolv'd to slay them in that desart land;
27 To leave them to the nations round a prey,
Destroy their race, and scatter them away.
28 Still obstinate, again they left their Lord,
And Baal's imag'd deity ador'd;
To him their victims and oblations paid,
And bow'd before a mortal god for aid.
29 Jehovah, angry at this new offence,
Sent on his tribes a deadly pestilence;
In Baal's aid but poor relief they found;
Death, clad in all his horrors stalk'd around;
30 When Phinehas with divine resentment glow'd,
And due regard for heav'n's high honour shew'd;
The madness of the wretched croud restrain'd,
And a full respite from their miseries gain'd:
No more th' infection on their vitals prey'd,
But by his strenuous arm the plague was stay'd.
31 For this has he acquir'd a deathless name,
And, long as lasts this earth, shall live his fame.
32 And, Meribah, their guilt thy waters saw,
When still the All-high's dread anger cou'd not awe
Their adamantine hearts; when still they shew'd
Their base distrust in their almighty God.
'Twas then, O Moses, that thy meekness fail'd;
Their constant murmurs o'er thy soul prevail'd;
Their base reproaches rais'd thy wrath too high,
And on this side of Jordan must thou die.
34 But sure, when of the promis'd land possest,
When with the fruitful fields of Canaan blest,
Their God they worshipp'd and his will obey'd,
And never from the law he gave them stray'd?
Ah! still his dread behests they durst withstand,
And not destroy'd the natives of the land:
35 But, to their base idolatries inclin'd,
36 Soon in their impious rites with them they join'd;
Of fancied deities they sought th' abodes,
And offer'd human victims to their gods:
37 Nay; their own infants (horrid is the thought)!
Unnatural parents to their demons brought;
Around their altars stream'd the vital flood,
And all the fsacred land's distain'd with blood.
39 Thus they the aid of fancied gods implor'd;
Thus they the works of their own hands ador'd.
40 Therefore the Lord with dreadful fury burn'd;
Justly the people he had chose, he scorn'd;
41 He to the nations gave them up a prey,
And they their most invet'rate foes obey.
42 Their lordly foes with insolence oppress,
And load them with the most severe distress.
43 And yet, if e'er their gracious God reliev'd,
Still their obdurate hearts his spirit griev'd;
Still to their wonted crimes wou'd they return,
His name reject, and at his statutes spurn.
44 Yet still his mercy and his goodness sway'd;
Oft he reliev'd them, when they sought his aid;
45 Oft mindful of his covenant he prov'd,
Forgave their crimes, and all their woes remov'd.
46 And, when for their impieties brought low,
They bore th' oppressions of the haughty foe,
With soft compassion he the conqu'ror struck,
That still more mild, more gentle, was the yoke.
47 O sov'reign Lord, thy favour'd tribes defend;
Still 'gainst the heathen be our pow'rful friend;
That we thy wond'rous glory may proclaim,
And sing in grateful hymns thy holy name:
48 That Israel's race may Israel's God extol,
And, while this earth shall live, on thee may call;
Thy pow'r, thy might, thy majesty, may sing,
And hail their gracious God, their heav'nly king.
With thankful hymns address the mighty Lord
Sin and the Divine Patience
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106:5-38 First Line: We with our fathers have transgressed Topics: Afflictions Deliverance from; Afflictions For sin; Afflictions From God; Afflictions Purpose of; Anger of God Righteous; Backsliding; Christ Power of; Church Afflicted; Church Unfaithful; Covenant False to; Covenant Keeping; Covenant Of God; Discontent; Disobedience; Doxology; Faith Act of; Glory of God In Creation; God Denied; Gospel Fullness of; Heart Evil, Hard, and Stubborn; Idolatry; Ingratitude to God; Mercy of God Great; Miracles; Missions Need for; Praise Calls to; Prayer Answers to; Prayer Confession in; Prayer For Christ's Sake; The Redeemed; Salvation From Sin and Troubled; Sin Confessed; Sin Hinders Communion with God; Sin Original; Unbelief; Zeal False Used With Tune: [We with our fathers have transgressed]
Sin and the Divine Patience
But from these wonders they forgot
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106
But from these wonders they forgot
Yet, unreclaim'd, this stubborn race
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106
Yet, unreclaim'd, this stubborn race
Nor did these savage cruelties
Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106
Nor did these savage cruelties
You are beneath me
Author: Graham Jeffery Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106:21 Topics: Hope and Consolation; Protection; Year C Second Sunday Before Advent Used With Tune: [You are beneath me]
You are beneath me
O Sing Hallelujah!
Meter: 12.11.12.11 D Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalm 106 First Line: O sing hallelujah! Praise God for his goodness Topics: Backsliding; Covenant of Grace; Idolotry; Israel Used With Tune: CHESED Text Sources: OPC/URCNA 2016
O Sing Hallelujah!
Psalm 32: I Turn to You, Lord
Author: Roy James Stewart Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalms 1-150 First Line: Happy the one whose sin is forgiven Refrain First Line: I turn to you, Lord, in times of trouble and you fill me Topics: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B; Christian Initiation; Conversion; Evening; Forgiveness; Interfaith; Journey; Lent; Penance; Salvation; Sin; Suffering; Trial and Tribulation Used With Tune: [Happy the one whose sin is forgiven]
Psalm 32: I Turn to You, Lord
O Give Thanks to the LORD (Yao gan-xie Shang-Zhu)
Author: I-to Loh; C. Michael Hawn Appears in 1 hymnal Scripture: Psalms 1-150 First Line: Yao gan-xie Shang-Zhu (O give thanks to the LORD) Topics: Biblical Narrative; God in Creation and Providence Creator; God in Creation and Providence Providence and Goodness; Psalm; Thanksgiving Used With Tune: MIHAMEK
O Give Thanks to the LORD (Yao gan-xie Shang-Zhu)
