2 While here we walk on hostile ground
The few that we can call our friends,
Are like ourselves in fetters bound,
And weariness our steps attends.
3 But yet we shall behold the day,
When Zion's children shall return;
When all our griefs shall flee away,
And we no more again shall mourn.
4 The hope that such a day shall come,
Makes e'en the exile's portion sweet;
Tho' now we wander far from home,
In Zion soon we all shall meet.
1 HOW can we adore, or worthily praise Thy goodness and power, thou God of all
With honour and blessing, before thee we fall,
Most humbly confessing Thee Father of all.
2 Thou Saviour! art one withGod the supreme, His eternal Son, and equal with him:
Invested with glory, on high dost thou sit; While angels adore thee, and bow at thy feet. 3 Soon Lord will thy seat of Judgment appear, Prepare us to meet thee joyfully there; The grace of thy spirit in us shed abroad, And bid us inherit the kingdom of God.
1 O FOR a heart to praise my God, A heart from guilt set free,
A heart that's sprinkled with the blood
So freely shed for me!
2 A heart resign'd, submissive, meek,
Our great Redeemer's throne.
Where only Christ is heard to speak,
Where Jesus reigns alone.
3 A humble, lowly, contrite heart,
Believing, true, and clean;
Which neither life, nor death, can part
From him that dwells within.
4 Thy nature, gracious Lord, impart,
Come quickly from above;
Write thy new name upon my heart,
Thy new,
1 THE heavens declare thy glory Lord,
In every star thy wisdom shines;
But when our eyes behold thy word,
We read thy name in fairer lines.
2 The rolling sun, the changing light,
And day and night thy power confess;
But the blest volume thou hast writ,
Reveals thy justice and thy grace.
3 Great sun of righteousness arise,
Bless the lost world with heavenly light:
Thy gospel makes the sinful wise,
Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right.
4 Thy noblest wonders here we view,
In souls renew'd and sins forgiven:
Lord cleanse our sins, our souls renew,
And make thy word our guide to heaven.
1 SAVIOUR when in dust to thee,
Low we bow the adoring knee,
When repentant to the skies,
Scarce we lift our weeping eyes;
Oh by all thy pains and woe,
(Suffered once for man below)
Bending from thy throne on high,
Hear our solemn Litany.
2 By thy helpless infant years,
By thy life of want and tears,
By thy days of sore distress,
In the savage wilderness;
By the dread mysterious hour
Of the insulting tempter's power:
Turn, oh! turn a favouring eye,
Hear our solemn Litany.
3 Br the sacred griefs that wept
Ger the grave where Lazars slept ;
By the bocing tears that fowed
Over Salem's loved abode :
By the anguished sigh that told
Treachery lurked within thy fold;
From thy seat above the sky,
Hear our solemn Litany.
4 By thine hour of dire despair,
By thine agony of prayer;
By the cross, the nail, the thorn,
Piercing spear, and torturing scorn ;
By the gloom that veiled the skies,
O'er the dreadful sacrifice;
Listen to our humble cry,
Hear our solemn Litany.
5 By thy deep expiring groan,
By the sad sepulchral stone;
By the vault whose dark abode,
Held in vain the rising God,
Oh! from earth to heaven restored,
Mighty reascended Lord,
Listen, listen, to the cry
Of our solemn Litany.
1 GLORIOUS things of thee are spoken,
Zion, city of our God;
He, whose word cannot be broken:
Formed thee for his own abode :
On the rock of ages founded,
What can shake thy sure repose!
With salvation's walls surrounded,
Thou may'st smile at all thy foes.
2 Round each habitation hovering,
See the cloud and fire appear!
For a glory and a covering
Shewing that the Lord is near :
Blest inhabitants of Zion,
Washed in the Redeemer's blood!
Jesus whom their souls rely on,
Makes them kings and priests to God.
3 Saviour, if of Zion's city,
Thro' thy grace we members are,
Let the world deride or pity,
We will boast the name we bear!
Fading is all this world's pleasure,
All its empty pomp and show;
Solid joys and lasting treasure
None but Zion's children know.
1 LORD do thou thy grace impart,
Poor in spirit, meek in heart;
Let me as my Master be,
Rooted in humility.
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