My soul shall ne'er forget thy word;-
Thy word is all my joy.

3 How would I run in thy commands,
If thou my heart discharge

From sin, and Satan's hateful chains,
And set my feet at large!

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Thy statutes and thy name;

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I'll speak thy word, though kings should hear,
Nor yield to sinful shame.

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PSALM 119, Sixteenth Part, C. M.
Prayer for quickening Grace.

Y soul lies cleaving to the dust;
Lord! give me life divine;
From vain desires and every lust,
Turn off these eyes of mine.

2 I need the influence of thy grace,
To speed me in thy way,
Lest I should loiter in my race,
Or turn my feet astray.

3 Are not thy mercies sovereign still,
And thou a faithful God?

Wilt thou not grant me warmer zeal
To run the heavenly road?

4 Does not my heart thy precepts love,
And long to see thy face?

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And yet how slow my spirits move,
Without enlivening grace!

5 Then shall I love thy gospel more,
And ne'er forget thy word;

When I have felt its quickening power,
To draw me near the Lord.

PSALM 119, Seventeenth Part, C. M.
The Bible, our Light.

1 HOW precious is the book divine,
By inspiration given!
Bright as a lamp its doctrines shine,
To guide our souls to heaven.

2 It sweetly cheers our drooping hearts,
In this dark vale of tears;

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Life, light, and joy, it still imparts,
And quells our rising fears.

3 This.lamp, through all the tedious night
Of life, shall guide our way,

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Till we behold the clearer light
Of heaven's eternal day.

PSALM 119, Eighteenth Part, C. M.
The Spirit and the Word.

THE Spirit breathes upon the word,
And brings the truth to sight;
Precepts and promises afford
A sanctifying light.

2 A glory gilds the sacred page,
Majestic, like the sun;

It gives a light to every age;-
It gives, but borrows none.

3 The hand, that gave it, still supplies
The gracious light and heat;

His truths upon the nations rise,—
They rise, but never set.

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For such a bright display,

As makes a world of darkness shine
With beams of heavenly day.

5 My soul rejoices to pursue
The steps of him I love,

Till glory breaks upon my view,
In brighter worlds above.

PSALM 119, S. M.

The Bible, the Guide of the Young.
ITH humble heart and tongue,
My God! to thee I pray :

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Oh! bring me now, while I am young,
To thee, the living way..

2 Make an unguarded youth

The object of thy care;

Help me to choose the way of truth,

And flee from every snare.

3 My heart, to folly prone,
Renew by power divine;

Unite it to thyself alone,

And make me wholly thine.

4 Oh! let thy word of grace

My warmest thoughts employ;
Be this, through all my foll'wing days,
My treasure and my joy.

5 To what thy laws impart,

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Be my whole soul inclined;

Come, Saviour! dwell within my heart,
And sanctify my mind.

PSALM 120, C. M.

Complaint of Strife, and Desire for Peace.

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When wilt thou set my soul at rest,
From lips that love deceit?

2 Oh! might I fly to change my place,
How would I choose to dwell
In some wide lonesome wilderness,
And leave these gates of hell!

3 Peace is the blessing that I seek;
How lovely are its charms!

I am for peace, but when I speak,
They all declare for arms.

4 Should burning arrows smite them through, Strict justice would approve;

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But I would rather spare my foe,
And melt his heart with love.

PSALM 121, L. M.

God's guardian Care.

E lives-the everlasting God,

Who built the world, who spread the flood;
The heavens, with all their hosts he made,
And the dark regions of the dead.

2 He guides our feet, he guards our way;
His morning smiles adorn the day;
He spreads the evening veil, and keeps
The silent hours, while Israel sleeps.

3 Israel, a name divinely blest,
May rise secure, securely rest;

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Thy holy guardian's wakeful eyes
Admit no slumber, nor surprise.

4 No sun shall smite thy head by day,
Nor the pale moon, with sickly ray,
Shall blast thy couch;-no baleful star
Dart his malignant fire so far.

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5 Should earth and hell with malice burn,
Still thou shalt go, and still return,
Safe in the Lord;-his heavenly care
Defends thy life from every snare..
6 On thee foul spirits have no power:
And, in thy last departing hour,
Angels, who trace the airy road,
Shall bear thee homeward to thy God.

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PSALM 121, First Part, C. M.
Confidence in God.

TO heaven I lift my waiting, eyes,
There all my hopes are laid:

The Lord, who built the earth and skies,
Is my perpetual aid.

2 Their steadfast feet shall never fall,
Whom he designs to keep;

His ear attends the softest call;
His eyes can never sleep.

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Thy keeper is the Lord;

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His wakeful eyes employ his power
For thine eternal guard.

4 No scorching sun, nor sickly moon,
Shall have his leave to smite

He shields thy head from burning noon,
From blasting damps at night.

5 He guards thy soul, he keeps thy breath,
Where thickest dangers come;
Go and return, secure from death,
Till God commands thee home.

PSALM 121, Second Part, C. M.
Help in God.

ENCOMPASSED with ten thousand ills,
Pressed by pursuing foes,

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I lift mine eyes unto the hills,
From whence salvation flows.

2 My help is from the Lord, who made
And governs earth and sky;
I look to his almighty aid,

And ever-watching eye.

3 He, who thy soul in safety keeps,
Shall drive destruction hence;
The Lord, thy keeper, never sleeps,
The Lord is thy defence.

4 The sun, with his afflictive light,
Shall harm thee not by day;
Nor thee the moon molest by night,
Along thy tranquil way.

5 Thee shall the Lord preserve from sin,
And comfort in distress;

Thy going-out and coming-in
The Lord, thy God, shall bless.

PSALM 121, H. M.

God, our Protector.

TO God I lift mine eyes,

From him is all my aid;
The God who built the skies,

And earth and nature made:

God is the tower

To which I fly;

His grace is nigh

In every hour.

2 My feet shall never slide,

And fall in fatal snares;

Since God, my guard and guide
Defends me from my fears:
Those wakeful eyes,

That never sleep,

Shall Israel keep,
When dangers rise.

3 No burning.heats by day,
Nor blasts of evening air,
Shall take my health away,
If God be with me there:

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