6 The words which from my mouth proceed, The thoughts sent from my heart, Accept, O Lord, for thou my strength And SELECTION 7. (Ps. 25.) S. M. Past Sins remembered and Mercy sought. TO thee I lift my soul: O Lord, I trust in thee: My God, let me not be ashamed, 2 Show me thy ways, O Lord, 3 For thou art God that dost 4 My sins and faults of youth SELECTION 8. (Ps. 26.) EXAMINE me, and do me prove; For thy love is before mine eyes, 2 With persons vain I have not sat, 3 Mine hands in innocence, O Lord, And compass it will I: 4 That I, with voice of thanksgiving, 5 The habitation of thy house, SELECTION 9. (Ps. 27.) The Divine Favour sought. LORD, give ear unto my voice, Upon me also mercy have, And do thou answer me. 2 When thou didst say, Seek ye my face, Then unto thee reply Thus did my heart, Above all things 3 Far from me hide not thou thy face; Thy servant in thy wrath: thou hast 4 O God of my salvation, Leave me not, nor forsake: Tho' me my parents both should leave, 50 Lord, instruct me in thy way, In a plain path, because of those SELECTION 10. (Ps. 28.) Past Mercies remembered. LORD, I will thee extol, for thou And over me thou to rejoice 20 thou who art the Lord my God, With loud cries lifted up my voice, 3 0 Lord, my soul thou hast brought up, 40 ye that are his holy ones, And give unto him thanks, when ye 5 For but a moment lasts his wrath; SELECTION 11. (Ps. 32.) Pardon sought and found. BLESSED is the man to whom All the transgressions he hath done, 2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord And in whose spirit there is no guile, 3 I will confess unto the Lord 4 For this shall every godly one 5 Thou art my hiding-place, thou shalt SELECTION 12. (Ps. 34.) Safety and Happiness of the Righteous All those about that do him fear, 2 O taste and see that God is good: Fear God, his saints: none that him fear 3 The lions young may hungry be, 4 O children, hither do ye come, I shall you teach to understand 5 What man is he that life desires, SELECTION 13. (Ps. 36.) The Divine Mercy exalted. THY mercy, Lord, is in the heavens; 2 Lord, thou preservest man and beast, 3 They with the fatness of thy house From rivers of thy pleasures thou 4 Because of life the fountain pure SELECTION 14. (Ps. 43.) Trust in God. SEND thy light forth and thy truth; And bring me to thine holy hill, 2 Then will I to God's altar go, To God my chiefest joy; Yea, God, my God, thy name to praise My harp I will employ. |