4 Cover our multitude of sins,
The sins of age, and youth;
Reveal thy ways, and teach thy paths,
And guide us in thy truth.
5 Our anxious eyes and fervent souls
Are fix'd on Thee, O Lord!
Let not thy people plead in vain,
Nor trust in vain thy word.
PSALM 27. (L. M.)
God the Father and Friend of his people.
1 THOU Lord, our Guard, our Light, our Way,
What dangers shall our souls dismay?
God of our life! whom need we fear,
When foes assault, if Thou art near?
2 One wish, with holy transport warm,
Our hearts have form'd, and yet shall form;
One thing we ask ;-to spend our days
In Zion's courts with prayer and praise.
3 Though every earthly friend depart,
And love forsake a parent's heart,
The Lord, on whom our hopes depend,
Will prove a Father and a Friend.
4 Ye trembling saints! in every strait
On God with sacred courage wait:
His grace will life and strength afford:
Oh! wait then daily on the Lord.
PSALM 28. (C.M.)
God the strength of his saints.
1 O LORD our Rock! to Thee we fly, And pour in prayer our breath;
Bow down, and hear, lest we become
Like them who sleep in death.
2 Regard our supplications, Lord;
The cries that we repeat,
With weeping eyes, and lifted hands, Before thy mercy-seat.
3 Oh! cast us not away with those, Whose ways are ways of sin,
Whose works proclaim their awful doom,
Ere judgement doth begin,
4 O Thou! the Strength of all thy saints,
In whom we live and move,
Still feed us with the bread of life,
Still bless us with thy love.
PSALM 29. (L. M.); .;
God speaking in thunder.
1 SING, ye sons of men, O sing,
Praise to heaven's eternal King:
Raise to Him some new-taught song:
Power and strength to God belong.
2 Power and strength to God assign;
And, before his hallow'd shrine,,
Yield the homage that his name
From our heart and lips doth claim.
3 Hark! his voice in thunder breaks;-
Hush'd to silence, while he speaks,
Ocean's waves from pole to pole
Hear the awful accents roll.
4 Now the bursting clouds give way,
And the vivid lightnings play;
e wilds, by man untrod, mble at th' approaching God.
O'er the desolated waste
Oft the dreaded sounds have pass'd;
Oft the fiery bolt invades
Lebanon's profoundest shades.
6 God the swelling surge commands,
Fix'd his throne for ever stands;
God his people shall increase,
Arm with strength, and bless with peace.
God gracious to his people.
1 OUR souls shall magnify the Lord,
And praise his holy name;
For He hath set our feet on high,
And put our foes to shame.
2 O Lord our God! we cried to Thee,
And Thou didst hear our cry:
Thou hast preserv'd our souls from hell,
And brought salvation nigh.
3 Swift as the twinkling of an eye,
Thy wrath shall pass away;
Though darkness veil the evening sky, ' Yet bright shall dawn the day."
4 When cloth'd in sackcloth sad we lie,
And great our guilt appears,
Thy mercy turns our grief to joy,
And quells our guilty fears.
5 Then join, ye saints, to praise his name, For praise to him belongs;
And, as his mercies endless are,
Endless should be our songs.
PSALM 32. (L. M.)
The blessedness of pardon..
1 How blest the man, whose conscious grief
From Thee, great God! hath found relief;
Whose guilt thy boundless love hath veil'd,
His fears compos'd, his weakness heal'd.
2 With shame our numerous crimes we own:
Prostrate we fall before thy throne:
To Thee our inmost guilt disclose,
And in thy bosom pour our woes.
3 O grant, while yet our hands we rear,
The voice of love may greet our ear:
Thy Spirit send, speak peace within,
And seal the pardon of our sin.
4 For this thy saints, who seek thy face,
Ere yet is past the day of grace,
To Thee with steadfast hope repair,
'To Thee address the' unwearied prayer.
5 So when the storms and tempests lour,
And floods of wrath their torrents pour,
They, from the floods and stormy wind,
In Thee a Hiding-Place shall find.
The righteous exhorted to rejoice in God. 1. YE righteous, in the Lord rejoice; To Him your voices raise:
For well the righteous it becomes
To sing glad songs of praise.
2 Behold! the Lord on all his saints
Looks down with pitying eyes :
His mercy saves their souls from death,
And every want supplies.
3 Our souls on God with patience wait:
Our help and shield is He:
Thrice Holy Lord! our hearts rejoice,
Because we trust in Thee.
4 The riches of thy mercy, Lord,
Do Thou to us extend;
Since we, for all we want, or wish,
On Thee alone depend.
PSALM 34. 1st version. (C. M.)
The Christian exhorting to trust in God.
I THROUGH all the changing scenes of life,
In trouble and in joy,
Still shall the praises of my God
My heart and tongue employ.
2 Of his deliverance I will boast,
Till all, that are distress'd,
From my example comfort take, :
And soothe their griefs to rest.
3 Come, magnify the Lord with me;
With me exalt his name;
When in distress to Him I call'd,
He to my rescue came.
4 Oh! make but trial of his love:
Experience will decide,.
How bless'd are they, and only they,
Who in his truth confide
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