funeral hymn

in Rhu's Lieder.

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7 All sheep and oxen, yea, and beasts that in the field do stray;

8 Fowls of the air, fish of the sea, all that pass through the same. f 9 How excellent in all the earth, Lord, our Lord, is thy name!

m 7 God shall endure for aye; he doth for judgment set his throne;

8 In righteousness to judge the world, justice to give each one.

9 God also will a refuge be

for those that are oppress'd; A refuge will he be in times

of trouble to distress'd.

m 10 And they that know thy name, in the their confidence will place: For thou hast not forsaken them that truly seek thy face.

f110 sing ye praises to the Lord that dwells in Sion hill; And all the nations among his deeds record ye still.

m 12 When he enquireth after blood, he then rememb'reth them: The humble folk he not forgets that call upon his name.

mp 13 Lord, pity me; behold the grief which I from foes sustain ;

Ev'n thou, who from the gates of death
dost raise me up again;

mf 14 That I, in Sion's daughters' gates,
may all thy praise advance;
And that I may rejoice always
in thy deliverance.

Thou shalt a Her time for

m 15 The heathen are sunk in the pit which they themselves prepar'd; And in the net which they have hid their own feet fast are snar'd.

16 The Lord is by the judgment known which he himself hath wrought: The sinners' hands do make the snares wherewith themselves are caught. p 17 They who are wicked into hell each one shall turned be; And all the nations that forget to seek the Lord most high.

m 18 For they that needy are shall not
forgotten be alway;

The expectation of the poor
shall not be lost for aye.

mf 19 Arise, Lord, let not man prevail;
judge heathen in thy sight:

20 That they may know themselves but the nations, Lord, affright.

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2 The wicked in his loftiness
doth persecute the poor:
In these devices they have fram'd
let them be taken sure.

3 The wicked of his heart's desire
doth talk with boasting great;
He blesseth him that's covetous,
whom yet the Lord doth hate.

4 The wicked, through his pride of face, on God he doth not call;

And in the counsels of his heart
the Lord is not at all.

5 His ways they always grievous are;
thy judgments from his sight
Removed are: at all his foes

he puffeth with despite.

6 Within his heart he thus hath said,
I shall not moved be;
And no adversity at all

shall ever come to me.

m 7 His mouth with cursing, fraud, deceit, is fill'd abundantly;

And underneath his tongue there is
mischief and vanity.

8 He closely sits in villages;

he slays the innocent:

Against the poor that pass him by

his cruel eyes are bent.

9 He, lion-like, lurks in his den;
he waits the poor to take;

And when he draws him in his net,
his prey he doth him make.

10 Himself he humbleth very low,
he croucheth down withal,
That so a multitude of poor
may by his strong ones fall.

11 He thus hath said within his heart,
The Lord hath quite forgot;
He hides his countenance, and he
for ever sees it not.

my 12 O Lord, do thou arise; O God,
lift up thine hand on high:
Put not the meek afflicted ones
out of thy memory.

mp 13 Why is it that the wicked man

thus doth the Lord despise ? Because that God will it require

he in his heart denies.

p14 Thou hast it seen; e for their mischief and spite thou wilt repay :

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The poor commits himself to thee; thou art the orphan's stay.

15 The arm break of the wicked man, and of the evil one;

Do thou seek out his wickedness, until thou findest none.

This, as the portion of their cup, doth unto them pertain.

m 6 The words of God are words most pure; they be like silver try'd

In earthen furnace, seven times
that hath been purify'd.

7 Lord, thou shalt them preserve and
for ever from this race.

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mf 3 God shall cut off all flatt'ring lips,

tongues that speak proudly thus,

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vile men are high in place.

Martyrs; St. Kilda. Chant 260.

are ours: who's lord o'er us?

mf 5 For poor oppress'd, and for the sighs

of needy, rise will I,

Saith God, and him in safety set from such as him defy.

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Against him I prevail'd; And those that trouble me rejoice, when I am mov'd and fail'd.

m 5 But I have all my confidence thy mercy set upon;

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m 1 THAT there is not a God, the fool doth in his heart conclude:

They are corrupt, their works are vile;
not one of them doth good.

2 Upon men's sons the Lord from heav'n
did cast his eyes abroad,
To see if any understood,
and did seek after God.

mp 3 They altogether filthy are,
they all aside are gone;

And there is none that doeth good,
yea, sure there is not one.

m 4 These workers of iniquity

do they not know at all,

That they my people eat as bread,

and on God do not call?

mp 5 There fear'd they much; for God is the whole race of the just.

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6 You shame the counsel of the poor, because God is his trust.

mf 7 Let Isr'el's help from Sion come: when back the Lord shall bring His captives, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall sing.

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Resignation; Hayne.

mp 1 WITHIN thy tabernacle, Lord, who shall abide with thee? And in thy high and holy hill who shall a dweller be?

m 2 The man that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, And as he thinketh in his heart, so doth he truth express.

3 Who doth not slander with his