Open the sanctuary gates,
The gates of righteousness;
That I may enter, and in pray'rs
And praise His Name confess.

PSALM CXVIII.

IV.

WHILE my God His succour sendeth,
What can man's weak arm avail?
While my helpers He befriendeth,
Vainly shall my foes assail.

8.7.

Trust in God, more sure reliance
Than in man's brief changeful hour;
Trust in God, more safe affiance
Than in princes' mightiest power.
By ten thousand foes surrounded,
When the thronging nations came,
I beheld their hosts confounded
Thro' my God's victorious Name.
God, my hope and my salvation,

Who didst strength and succour bring,

Let my heart's deep adoration

Aid my tongue Thy truth to sing.

PSALM CXIX.

I.

(9, 10, 11, 12.)

N.V.

C.M.

How shall the young preserve their ways

From all pollution free?

By making still their course of life

With Thy commands agree.

With hearty zeal for Thee I seek,
To Thee for succour pray;

O suffer not my careless steps
From Thy right paths to stray.

Safe in my heart, and closely hid,
Thy Word, my treasure, lies;
To succour me with timely aid,
When sinful thoughts arise.

Secured by that, my grateful soul
Shall ever bless Thy Name:
O teach me then by Thy just laws
My future life to frame!

PSALM CXIX.

II.

(17. 19. 24.)

BE gracious to Thy servant, Lord,
Do Thou my life defend,
That I, according to Thy Word,
My future time may spend.

Though like a stranger in the land,
From place to place I stray,

N.V.

C.M.

Thy righteous judgments from my sight
Remove not Thou away.

For Thy commands have always been
My comfort and delight;

By them I learn, with prudent care,
To guide my steps aright.

PSALM CXIX.

III.

(65. 67. 71.)

N.V.

C.M.

WITH me, Thy servant, Thou hast dealt

Most graciously, O Lord;

Repeated benefits bestow'd,

According to Thy Word.

Before affliction stopp'd my course,
My footsteps went astray;
But I have since been disciplined
Thy precepts to obey.

'Tis good for me that I have felt
Affliction's chast'ning rod,
That I might duly learn and keep
The statutes of my God.

PSALM CXIX.

N.V.

IV.

(105. 108. 111, 112.)

THY Word is to my feet a lamp,
The way of truth to show;
A watch-light to point out the path
In which I ought to go.

C.M.

Let still my sacrifice of praise
With Thee acceptance find;
And in Thy righteous judgments, Lord,
Instruct my willing mind.

Thy testimonies I have made

My heritage and choice;

For they, when other comforts fail,

My drooping heart rejoice.

My heart with early zeal began
Thy statutes to obey;

And, till my course of life is done,
Shall keep Thy upright way.

PSALM CXIX.

N.V.

V.

(169. 173, 174, 175.)

To my request and earnest cry
Attend, O gracious Lord;

Inspire my heart with heav'nly skill,
According to Thy Word.

Let Thy Almighty arm appear,
And bring me timely aid,

For I the laws Thou hast ordain'd
My heart's free choice have made.

My soul has waited long to see
Thy saving grace restored;

C.M.

Nor comfort knew, but what Thy laws,
Thy heavenly laws, afford.

Prolong my life that I may sing

My great Restorer's praise;

Whose justice from the depth of woe
My fainting soul shall raise.

PSALM CXXI.

(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 9.)

To Sion's hill I lift my eyes,
From thence expecting aid;
From Sion's hill, and Sion's God,
Who heaven and earth has made.

Then thou, my soul, in safety rest,
Thy Guardian will not sleep;
His watchful care, that Israel guards,
Will thee from danger keep.

N.V.

C.M.

Shelter'd beneath the Almighty's wings Thou shalt securely rest,

Where neither sun nor moon shall thee
By day or night molest.

At home, abroad, in peace, in war,
Thy God shall thee defend
Conduct thee through life's pilgrimage
Safe to thy journey's end.

PSALM CXXII.

(1. 4. 6, 7.)

O 'TWAS a joyful sound to hear
Our tribes devoutly say,
Up, Israel, to the temple haste,
And keep your festal day.
'Tis thither, by divine command,
The tribes of God repair,
Before His ark to celebrate

His Name with praise and prayer.
O pray we then for Salem's peace,
For they shall prosp❜rous be,
(Thou holy city of our God!)
Who bear true love to thee.
May peace within thy sacred walls
A constant guest be found,
With plenty and prosperity
Thy palaces be crown'd.

N.V.

C.M.

PSALM CXXV.

N.V.

(1, 2.)

C.M.

WHO place on Sion's God their trust,

Like Sion's rock shall stand;

Like her immoveably be fix'd
By His Almighty hand.