1 PSALM 27. ONTINUE, Lord, to hear my voice, In mercy all my prayers receive, 2 When us to seek thy glorious face Thou kindly dost advise : "Thy glorious face I'll always seek," My grateful heart replies. 3 Then hide not thou thy face, O Lord, My God and Saviour, leave not him 4 God's time with patient faith expect, PSALM 28. OLD VERSION. 1 TO render thanks unto the Lord, My voice, my pray'r, and my complaint, 2 He is my shield and fortitude, 3 He is our strength and our defence, } ! The health and the salvation of 4 Thy people and thy heritage, 1 I'LL PSALM 30. 'LL celebrate thy praises, Lord, To raise my drooping head, and check 2 Thus to his courts, ye saints of his, With me commemorate his truth, 3 His wrath has but a moment's reign, Your night of grief is recompens'd 4 Exalted thus, I'll gladly sing 1 PSALM 30. OLD VERSION. ALL laud and praise with heart and voice, Who didst not make my foes rejoice, But hast exalted me. 2 0 Lord my God, to thee I cry'd Thou gav'st an ear, and didst provide 3 Thou, Lord, hast brought my soul from hell, And thou the same didst save From them that in the pit do dwell, And kept'st me from the grave. 4 Sing praise, ye saints, that prove and see The goodness of the Lord; In honour of his Majesty Rejoice with one accord. 1H PSALM 32. E's bless'd whose sins have pardon gain'd, No more in judgment to appear; t Whose guilt remission has obtain'd, And whose repentance is sincere. 2 No sooner I my wound disclos'd, T The guilt that tortur'd me within, But thy forgiveness interpos'd, D And mercy's healing balm pour'd, interfa 3 True penitents shall thus succeed, Who seek thee whilst thou may'st be found; And, from the common deluge freed, Shall see remorseless sinners drown'd. 4 His saints that have perform'd his laws Their life in triumphs shall employ; Let them, as they alone have cause, In grateful rapture shout for joyr til bo'l PSALM 33. ET all the just to God with joy or well the righteous it becomes 2 Let harps, and psalteries, and lutes And new-made songs of loud applause 3 For faithful is the word of God, 4 "Tis God, who those that trust in him He frees their souls from death, their want In time of dearth supplies. 5 The riches of thy mercy, Lord, Do thou to us extend; Since we for all we want or wish PSALM 33. OLD VERSION. 1 YE righteous, in the Lord rejoice; That upright men with thankful voice 2 Praise ye the Lord with harp, and sing To him with psaltery; With ten-string'd instruments sounding, 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new, 4 Both judgment, equity, and right, And with his gifts he doth delight PSALM 34. 1 THE Lord from heav'n beholds the just With favourable eyes; And, when distress'd, his gracious ear 2 But turns his wrathful look on those, To cut them off, and from the earth 3 Deliv'rance to his saints he gives, 4 For God preserves the souls of those To them and their posterity b |