3 Though 'tis beneath His state to view In highest heav'n what angels do, Yet He to earth vouchsafes His care: He takes the needy from his cell, Advancing him in courts to dwell, Companion to the greatest there. PSALM 118. PART 1. I WILL give thanks to Thee, O Lord, Who hast me heard, and art become 2 The stone, which formerly among 3 Is now become the corner-stone, This was the mighty work of God, This is the joyful day indeed, Which God himself hath wrought; PSALM 118. PART 2. 1 O PRAISE the Lord, for He is good, Their sense of His eternal love 2 For better 'tis to trust in God, He by His own resistless arm The saving strength of His right hand 3 This is the joyful day, O God! And let the tribute of our praise PSALM 119. 1 HOW shall the young preserve their ways From all pollution free? 2 By making still their course of life With hearty zeal for Thee I seek, 3 Safe in my heart, and closely hid, 4 Secur'd by that, my grateful soul Oh, teach me then, by Thy just laws PSALM 125. 1 WHO place on Sion's God their trust, Like Sion's rock shall stand: Like her immovably be fix'd By His Almighty hand. 2 Look how the hills on ev'ry side So stands the Lord, around His saints, 3 Be good, O righteous God, to those 4 To Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, PSALM 127. 1 IN vain we build, unless the Lord The fabric still sustain; Unless the Lord the city keep, 2 In vain we rise before the day, Allow no respite to our toil, 3 'Tis God that competence and wealth, Upon His saints bestows; He crowns their labours with success, PSALM 130. 1 FROM lowest depths of woe Lord, hear my supplicating voice, 2 My soul with patience waits My hopes are on Thy promise built, 3 Let Israel trust in God, No bounds His mercy knows; 4 Whose friendly streams to us A healing spring, a spring to cleanse PSALM 139. 1 THOU, Lord, by strictest search hast known, My rising up and lying down: My secret thoughts are known to Thee, 2 Thine eye my bed and path surveys, 3 Surrounded by Thy pow'r I stand, |