My pow'rs shall all unite to praise,
While life and breath prolong my days:
For life no pleasure can afford,
But bless'd in thee, most bounteous Lord.
HEAR me, O God; my voice attend,
While at thy throne in pray'r I bend;
Preserve my life, when danger's near,
From ev'ry foe; from every fear.
O hide me from the secret snare,
When sin and death their darts prepare;
From pow'rs of earth and hell combin'd,
Let me in thee my refuge find.
For glory shall adorn the just,
While in Jehovah's name they trust :
Eternal songs their joys proclaim,
Who love his word, and fear his name.
THE praise of Sion waits for thee,
My God, and praise becomes thy house;
There shall thy saints thy glory see,
And there perform their public vows.
O thou, whose mercy bends the skies.
To save when humble sinners pray;
All lands to thee shall lift their eyes,
And islands of the northern sea.
Blest is the man whom thou shalt choose,
And give him kind access to thee;
Grant him a place within thy house,
To taste thy love divinely free.
O BLESS our God, ye nations round,
People and lands rehearse his name;
And let the voice through earth resound,
Which speaks his praise, and spreads his fame.
From his command our life proceeds,
Our souls renew'd his favor share,
Our steps his heav'nly wisdom leads,
His hands our fainting strength repair.
Our pray'r, with holy ardor warm'd,
Our praise, shall in thy temple wait;
The vows, in times of trouble form'd,
We'll there, with holy joy, complete.
ALMIGHTY God, with beams of grace,
To bless thy church incline:
And let the glories of thy face
In all her temples shine.
Thy ways of mercy far and near,
Through all the earth proclaim,
Till distant regions as they hear,
Adore the Saviour's name.
To thee, through all the nations round,
Let men one chorus raise ;
Till all mankind thy name resound,
With shouts of gen'ral praise!
Proclaim, proclaim the joyful strain,
Earth with the triumph ring;
Jesus in righteousness shall reign,
The universal King!
Then fertile fields, with vast increase,
Thy influence shall confess;
And God, our God, with endless peace,
His num'rous church shall bless.
Our God his blessing shall extend,
Diffus'd from shore to shore,
Till all, to earth's remotest end,
The Saviour's name adore!
PSALM LXVIII. .
THOUSAND chariots God attending,
Countless thousands press his throne,
As on Sinai's top descending,
There Jehovah shines alone;
So with glory
In the cherubim he shone!
Lo! his enemies subduing,
Christ the Lord ascends on high!
Heav'nly hosts, the triumph viewing,
Hail him rising through the sky!
See the conq'ror,
Captive leads captivity!
Jesus, thou the gifts receiving,
Dost thy gifts on man bestow ;
Rebels from their guilt relieving;
Rebels now thy mercy know;
God, all-gracious,
Dwells again with man below.
Bless our God, his grace confessing,
Whom his church above adores;
Who, with daily show'rs of blessing,
From on high his Spirit pours:
God, our Saviour,
For his church salvation stores!
Him, in whom, as God, we glory,
God our Saviour we proclaim;
Life and death, O Lord, adore thee,
Yielding at thy awful name:
Thou shalt triumph,
And th' eternal vict'ry claim!
WHEN the humble poor, complaining,
Raise to heav'n their suppliant cry,
Then; o'er all Jehovah reigning,
Never will his aid deny,
Nor the pris'ners' chains despise,
Plaintive groans, or broken sighs.
Heav'n and earth aloud adore him;
Roaring billows of the seas;
All creation fall before him,
And through earth pronounce his praise:
Ye, his providence who prove,
Speak his universal love.
But, for Zion is his nation,
Zion's his peculiar care :
For his church, his great salvation
Will the heav'nly Lord prepare:
City where he loves to rest,
By his saints on earth possest.
There surrounded with his favor,
Shall the seed of Israel dwell;
All who love thy name, my Saviour,
There secur'd thy glories tell:
Till establish'd in the skies,
Where thy heav'nly cities rise.
HASTE to my aid, my Saviour, haste,
My soul, by hostile numbers chas'd,
To thee directs its pray'r;
In wild confusion backward borne,
Their vish defeated, let them mourn,
And lost in empty air.
Be shame their just reward assign'd,
While round me, with relentles mind,
Derision's shout they raise :
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