I I love the Lord, His strength is mine; He is my God, I trust His grace ; 63 64 My for-tress high,my shield di- vine, My Sav-iour and my hid ing - place. 2 My prayer to God shall still be raised 6 Thick darkness hides Him from the 3 When, floods of evil raging near, view, [veil, And swelling clouds His presence Until His glorious light breaks through In lightning flash and glistening hail. Down nigh to death my soul was 7 Jehovah's thunders fill the heaven, brought, I cried to God in all my fear; He heard and great deliverance wrought. The dreadful voice of God Most With shafts of light the clouds are 4 He came: the earth's foundations 8 The raging torrents overflow, The hills are shaken from their place, Thick smoke and fire devouring break In anger dread before His face. 5 Descending through the bending skies, Forth through the storm Jehovah flies And sweep the world's foundations bare, Because Thy blasts of anger blow, O Lord of earth and sea and air. 9 He took me from the whelming waves Of bitter hate and sore distress; The Lord, my stay and helper, saves, Though mighty foes around me press. 10 From direful straits He set me free, 36 PSALM 18 L. M. Our Source of Strength MOZART Arranged from Mozart I As Thou, O Lord, hast made me strong To overcome my might-y foe, 2. b Day un to day pro-claims His might, And night His wisdom tells to night. 2 Aloud they do not speak, They utter forth no word, Nor into language break, Their voice is never heard; Yet through the world the truth they bear And their Creator's power declare. 3 The clouds of heaven are spread, Comes forth the mighty one, 4 His daily going forth Is from the end of heaven; The firmament to him Is for his circuit given; His journey reaches to its ends, 38 PSALM 19 H. M. The Perfect Law of God HADDAM Arranged by Lowell Mason 1 Je - ho-vah's perfect law Restores the soul [Stanzas 5-9] 2 The Lord's commands are pure, His statutes, let the world confess, 3 They are to be desired Above the finest gold; Than honey from the comb More sweetness far they hold; With warnings they Thy servant guard, 39 4 His errors who can know? Nor let them o'er me reign; O Lord, Thou art a rock to me, The Witness of Nature to God Copyright, 1912, by United Presbyterian Board of Publication John B. Herbert The might and the glory of God; |