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2. Praise ye the Lord: the Lord is good:
To praise his name is sweet employ:
Israel he chose of old, and still
His church is his peculiar joy.

3. Bless ye the Lord, who taste his love;
People, and priests, exalt his name:
Among his saints he ever dwells,
His church is his Jerusalem.

PSALM 135. Version II. (C. M.)

Adoration of God's Majesty and Power.

1. O PRAISE the Lord with one consent, And magnify his name;

Let all the servants of our God
His glorious praise proclaim.

2. Praise him all ye, that in his house
Attend with constant care;
Who to his courts with holy joy,
And humble zeal repair.

3 The Lord with unresisted might
Performs his sov'reign will;

And all the powers of heaven and earth
His wise designs fulfil.

4. Their sense of his unbounded love
Let all his saints proclaim;

Adore him for his mighty works,
And magnify his name.

PSALM 136. Part I. (L. M.)

God supreme in works and grace.

1. GIVE to the God of gods renown,
The King of kings with glory crown;
His mercies ever shall endure,

When earthly thrones are known no more.
2. He built the earth, he spread the sky,
And fix'd the starry lights on high,
Wonders of grace to God belong,
Repeat his mercies in your song.

3. He fills the sun with morning light, He bids the moon direct the night; His mercies ever shall endure,

When sun and moon shall shine no more.

4. Thro' this vain world he guides our feet, And leads us to his heavenly seat;

His mercies ever shall endure,

When this vain world shall be no more.

PSALM 136. Part II. (L. M.)

All the ways of God are mercy and Truth. 1. GIVE to our God immortal praise! Mercy and truth are all his ways; Wonders of grace to God belong, Repeat his mercies in your song.

2. Israel he freed from Pharaoh's hand, And brought them to the promis'd land: Wonders of grace to God belong, Repeat his mercies in your song.

3. He saw the Gentiles dead in sin, And felt his pity work within: His mercies ever shall endure,

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When sin and death shall reign no more.

He sent his son with pow'r to save
From guilt and darkness and the grave;
Wonders of grace to God belong,
Repeat his mercies in your song.

PSALM 136. Version II. (P. M.)

Praise to God for his mercies.

TO God, the mighty Lord,
Your joyful thanks repeat;
To him your praise afford,

As good as he is great.

For God doth prove our constant friend;
His boundless love will never end.

How mighty is his hand!

What wonders hath he done!

He made the sea and land,

And spread the heav'ns alone!

This God will prove our constant friend;
His boundless love will never end.

He, in our sin and woe,

On us with favour thought;

And from our cruel foe,

Hath full redemption wrought.

And he will prove our constant friend,
His boundless love will never end.

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He does the food supply,

On which all creatures live;
To God who reigns on high,

Eternal praises give.

For God doth prove our constant friend, His boundless love will never end.

PSALM 137. Version 1. (8.8.8.)

The Jews weeping by the waters of Babylon.

1. WHERE Babylon's proud waters roll,
In exile sat we down to weep;
For thoughts of Zion, o'er our soul,
Came, like departed joys in sleep,
Whose forms to sad remembrance rise
Tho' lost for ever from our eyes.

2. Our harps upon the willows hung,

Where worn with toil our limbs reclin'd; The cords, untun'd and trembling, rung With mournful music on the wind; While foes, insulting o'er our wrongs, Cried, "sing us one of Zion's songs."

3. How can we sing the songs we love, Far from our own delightful land? If I prefer not thee above

My chiefest joy, may this right hand, Jerusalem!-forget her skill;

My tongue lie mute, my pulse be still.

PSALM 137. Version II. (L. M.)

Adapted as an address to the Jews.

1. WHY on the bending willows hung, Israel! still sleeps the tuneful string? Still mute remains the sullen tongue, And Zion's song denies to sing? 2. Awake! thy loudest raptures raise;

Let harp and voice unite their strains :
Thy promis'd king his sceptre sways,
Behold! thine own Messiah reigns.
3. Nor fear thy Salem's hills to wrong,
If other lands the triumph share:
A heavenly city claims thy song;
A brighter Salem rises there.

4. By foreign streams no longer roam,
Nor weeping, think of Jordan's flood:
In every clime behold a home;
In every temple see thy God.

PSALM 138., (L. M.)

Thanksgiving and Confidence.

1. WITH all my powers of heart and tongue,
I'll praise my Maker in my song;
Angels shall hear the notes I raise,
Approve the song, and join the praise.

2. I'll sing thy truth and mercy, Lord;
I'll sing the wonders of thy word:
Not all thy works and names below,
So much thy pow'r and glory show.

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