53 The
Lord Our Shepherd
Psalm 23 Tune: EVAN
William H. Havergal
1. The Lord's my Shep-herd, I'll not want;
He makes me down to lie
In pas-tures green; He lead-eth me
The qui-et wat-ers by.
2. My soul He doth re-store a-gain,
And me to walk doth make
With-in the paths of right-eous-ness,
E'en for His own Name's sake.
3. Yea, though I walk thro' death's dark
vale,
Yet will I fear no ill,
For Thou art with me, and Thy rod
And staff me com-fort still.
4. A ta-ble Thou hast fur-nished me
In pres-ence of my foes;
My head Thou dost with oil a-noint,
And my cup o-ver-flows.
5. Good-ness and mer-cy all my life
Shall sure-ly fol-low me,
And in God's house for-ev-er-more
My dwell-ing-place shall be.
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425 Unto
the Lord Lift Thankful Voices
Psalm 105 Tune: PIERRE
Maitre Pierre, 1562
1. Un-to the Lord lift thank-ful
voic-es,
Come, wor-ship while your soul re-joic-es;
Make know His do-ings far and near
That peo-ples all His Name may fear,
And tell, in man-y joy-ful lay,
Of all His won-ders day by day.
2. In joy-ful song your hearts
u-nit-ing,
His works most mar-vel-ous re-cit-ing,
Now glo-ry in His ho-ly Name;
Let those that seek Him spread His fame,
In-cline their Hearts to sing His praise,
And un-to Him their an-thems raise.
3. Seek ye Jehovah and His power,
Seek ye His presence every hour
His works, so marvelous and great,
Remember still, and meditate
Upon the wonders of His hands,
The judgments which His mouth commands.
4. Ye seed from Abraham descended,
To whom His favors were extended,
And Jacob's children, whom the Lord
Has chosen, hearken to His word.
He is the Lord, our Judge divine;
In all the earth His glories shine.
5. Jehova's truth will stand forever,
His covenant-bonds He will not sever;
The word of grace which He commands
To thousand generations stands;
The covenant made in days of old
With Abraham He doth uphold.
6. The Lord His covenant people planted
In lands of nations which He granted,
That they His statutes might observe,
Nor from His laws might ever swerve.
Let songs of praise to Him ascend,
And hallelujahs without end.
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400
Trust and Praise
Psalm 146 Tune: BROCKLHSBURY
Charlotte A. Barnard
1. Hal-le-lu-jah, praise Je-ho-vah,
O my soul, Je-ho-vah praise;
I will sing the glo-rious prais-es
Of my God through all my days
2. Put no con-fi-dence in princ-es,
Nor for help on man de-pend;
He shall die, to dust re-turn-ing,
And his pur-pos-es shall end.
3. Hap-py is the man that choos-es
Is-rael's God to be his aid;
He is blest whose hope of bless-ing
On the Lord his God is stayed.
4. Heav'n and earth the Lord cre-a-ted,
Seas and all that they con-tain;
He de-liv-ers from op-pres-sion,
Right-eous-ness He will main-tain.
5. Food He dai-ly gives the hun-gry,
Sets the mourn-ing pris-'ner free,
Rais-es those bowed down with an-guish,
Makes the sight-less eyes to see.
6. Well Jehovah loves the righteous,
And the stranger He befriends,
Helps the fatherless and widow,
Judgment on the wicked sends.
7. Over all God reigns forever,
Through all ages He is King;
Unto Him, thy God, O Zion,
Joyful hallelujahs sing.
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280 The Tender Mercies of
God
Psalm 103 Tune: AUTUMN Louis von Esch
1. O my soul, bless thou Je-ho-vah,
All with-in me bless His Name;
Bless Je-ho-vah and for-get not
All His mer-cies to pro-claim.
He for-gives all thy trans-gres-sions,
Heals thy sick-ness-es and pains;
He re-deems thee from de-struc-tion,
And His love thy life sus-tains.
2. He with ten-der mer-cies crowns thee,
Sat-is-fies thy full re-quest,
So that like the tire-less ea-gle
Thou with youth re-newed art blessed,
Right-eous is the Lord in judg-ment
Un-to all that are op-pressed;
To his peo-ple He has ev-er
Made His good-ness man-i-fest.
3. Yea, the Lord is full of mer-cy
And com-pas-sion for dis-tress,
Slow to an-ger and a-bun-dant
In His grace and ten-der-ness.
He will not be an-gry al-way,
Nor will He for-ev-er chide;
Tho' we oft have sinned a-gainst Him
Still His love and grace a-bide.
4. As the heav'ns are high a-bove us,
Great His love to us has proved;
Far as east from west is dis-tant,
He has all our sins re-moved.
As a fa-ther loves his chil-dren,
Feel-ing pit-y for thier woes,
So the Lord to those who fear Him
Mer-cy and com-pas-sion shows.
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196 Grateful
Adoration
Psalm 72 Tune: TABLER E. H. Frost
1. Blest be the Lord, our fa-thers's God,
E-ter-nal King of kings,
Who on-ly is om-nip-o-tent,
Per-form-ing won-drous things.
2. Blest be His great and glo-rious Name
For ev-er-more, A-men,
And let His glo-ry fill the earth
From shore to shore. A-men.
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383 The Lord Our
Maker
Psalm 139 ST. CRISPIN George J. Elvey
1. All that I am I owe to Thee,
Thy wis-dom, Lord, hath fash-ioned me;
I give my Mak-er thank-ful praise,
Whose wondrous works my soul a-maze.
2. Ere in-to be-ing I was bro't,
Thy eye did see, and in Thy tho't
My life in all its per-fect plan
Was or-dered ere my days be-gan.
3. Thy tho'ts, O God, how man-i-fold,
More pre-cious un-to me than gold!
I muse on their in-fin-i-ty,
A-wak-ing I am still with Thee.
4. The wick-ed Thou wilt sure-ly slay,
From me let sin-ners turn a-way;
They speak a-gainst the Name di-vine,
I count God's en-e-mies as mine.
5. Search me, O God, my heart dis-cern,
Try me, my in-most tho't to learn;
And lead me, if in sin I stray,
To choose the ev-er-last-ing way.
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40 The Divine Law
Psalm 19 ESKRIDGE
George C Stebbins
1. The law that the Lord has or-dained
Is per-fectr, the soul to re-store;
His truth makes the sim-ple most wise,
The truth that is sure ev-er-more.
2. His pre-cepts are right-eous and just,
Re-joic-ing the heart and the mind;
And all His com-mand-menmts are pure,
En-light- 'ning the eyes of the blind.
3. The fear of the Lord is most clean,
For-ev-er un-moved it has stood;
His judg-ments are per-fect-ly true,
In all things most right-eous and good.
4. Such treas-ure no gold can sup-ply,
Such sweet-ness no hov-ey af-ford;
Their warn-ings none heed and o-bey
Byt find most a-bun-dant re-ward.
5. O who can his errors discern?
From hidden faults, Lord, keep me free;
Let pride never reign in my heart,
And clear of great sin I shall be.
6. I pray that my words and my thoughts
May all with Thy precepts accord,
And ever be pleasing to Thee,
My rock, my Redeemer, my Lord.
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71 The Fearlessness
of Faith
Psalm 27 Tune: MILLENNIUM Anonymous
1. Je-ho-vah is my light,
And my sal-va-tion near;
Who shall my soul af-fright,
Or cause my heart to fear?
While God my strength, my life sus-tains,
Se-cure from fear my soul re-mains.
2. When e-vil-do-ers came
To make my life their prey,
They stum-bled in their shame
And fell in sore dis-may;
Though hosts make war on er-'ry side,
Still fear-less I in God con-fide.
3. My one re-quest has been,
And still this prayer I raise,
That I may dwell with-in
God's house through all my days,
Je-ho-vah's beau-ty to ad-mire,
And in His tem-ple to in-quire.
4. When troub-les round me swell,
When fears and dan-gers throng,
Se-cure-ly I will dwell
In His pa-vil-ion strong;
With-in the cov-ert of His tent
He hides me till the storm is spent.
5. Up-lift-ed on a rock
A-bove my foes a-round,
A-mid the bat-tle shock
My song shall still re-sound;
Then joy-ful of-f'rings I will bring,
Je-ho-vah's praise my heart shall sing.
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197 The
Doxology
Psalm 72 Tune: CORONATION Oliver Holden
1. Now bless-ed be Je-ho-vah, God,
The God of Is-ra-el,
Who on-ly do-eth won-drous works,
In glo-ry that ex-cel;
Who on-ly do-eth won-drous works,
In glo-ry that ex-cel.
2. And bless-ed be His glo-rious Name
To all e-ter-ni-ty;
The whole earth let His glo-ry fill.
A-men: So let it be;
The whole earth let His glo-ry fill.
A-men: So let it be.
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203 Life With God
Psalm 73 Tune:PRAYER William U. Butcher
1. In sweet com-mun-ion, Lord, with Thee
I con-stant-ly a-bide;
My hand Thou hold-est in Thy own
To keep me near Thy side.
2. Thy coun-sel through my earth-ly way
Shall guide me and con-trol,
And then to glo-ry aft-er-ward
Thou wilt re-ceive my soul.
3. Whom have I, Lord, in heav'n by Thee,
To Whom my tho'ts as-pire?
And, hav-ing Thee , on earth is nought
That I can yet de-sire.
4. Tho' flesh and heart should faint and fall,
The Lord will ev-er be
The strength and por-tion of my heart,
My God e-ter-nal-ly.
5. To live a-part from God is death,
'Tis good His face to seek;
My ref-uge is the liv-ing God,
His praise I long to speak.
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221 Longing for
Revival
Psalm 80 Tune:CARITAS Adoniram J.
Gordon
1. Great Shep-herd Who lead-est Thy peo-ple in love,
'Mid cher-u-bim dwell-ing, shine Thou from a-bove;
In might come and save us, Thy peo-ple re-store,
And we shall be saved when thy Face shines once more.
2. O haste, Lord, to hear us and pit-y our woes,
Af-flic-tion our por-tion, de-spised by our foes;
O Lord God al-might-y,in mer-cy re-store,
And we shall be saved when Thy face shines once more.
3. When Thou shalt re-vive us Thy name we will
praise,
And nev-er-more, turn-ing, de-part from thy ways;
O Lord God Al-might-y, in mer-cy re-store,
And we shall be saved when Thy face shines once more.
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434 Our Father Which
In Heaven Art
Our Fa-ther which in heav-en art, hal-low-ed be Thy name.
Thy king-dom come. Thy will be done, on earth as it is in
heav'n.
Give us this day our dai-ly bread. For-give , O Lord, for-give our debts,
As we for-give our debt-ors. In-to temp-ta-tion lead us not,
But de-liv-er us from e-vil. For Thine is the king-dom, the
Pow'r and the glo-ry both now and for-ev-er more. A-MEN.
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The above was taken from: The Psalter used in the
worship services of the Protestant Reformed Churches in America. This Psalter is available
from the Reformed Free Publishing Association.
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