3 Thither the tribes repair,
Where all are wont to meet,
And, joyful in the house of prayer,
Bend at the mercy-seat.
Pray for Jerusalem,
The city of our God.
The Lord from heaven be kind to them
That love the dear abode !
Within these walls may peace
And harmony be found!
Zion, in all thy palaces,
Prosperity abound!
For friends and brethren dear,
Our prayer shall never cease.
Oft as they meet for worship here,
God send His people peace!
414. "I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications." Psalm cxvi.
1 I LOVE the Lord! He lent an ear,
When I for help implored:
He rescued me from all my
Therefore I love the Lord.
2 Return, my soul, unto thy rest:
From God no longer roam.
His hand hath bountifully blest,
His goodness called thee home.
3 What shall I render unto thee,
My Saviour in distress,
For all Thy benefits to me,
So great and numberless?
4 This will I do, for Thy love's sake, And thus Thy power proclaim: The sacramental cup I take,
And call upon thy name.
5 Thou God of covenanted grace!
Hear and record my vow,
While in Thy courts I seek Thy face,
And at Thine altar bow :-
6 Henceforth to Thee myself I give,
With single heart and eye,
To walk before Thee while I live,
And bless Thee when I die.
415. "As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people." Psalm cxxv. 2.
1 ZION stands with hills surrounded;
Zion, kept by power divine.
All her foes shall be confounded,
Though the world in arms combine.
Happy Zion!
What a favoured lot is thine.
2 Every human tie may perish;
Friend to friend unfaithful prove;
Mothers cease their own to cherish;
Heaven and earth at last remove;
But no changes
Can attend Jehovah's love.
3 If Thy God should shew displeasure,
'Tis to save, and not destroy.
If He punish, 'tis in measure;
"Tis to rid thee of alloy.
Be thou patient:
Soon thy grief shall turn to joy.
4 In the furnace God may prove thee,
Thence to bring thee forth more bright;
But can never cease to love thee:
Thou art precious in His sight.
God is with thee,
God, thine everlasting light.
416." They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Zion,
which cannot be removed." Psalm cxxv. 1.
1 WHO in the Lord confide,
And feel His sprinkled blood,
In storms and hurricanes abide
Firm as the mount of God.
Steadfast, and fixed, and sure,
His Sion cannot move :
His faithful people stand secure,
Fenced by His guardian love.
As round Jerusalem
The hilly bulwarks rise,
So God protects and covers them
From all their enemies.
On every side He stands,
And for His Israel cares;
And safe in His Almighty hands
Their souls for ever bears.
But let them still abide
In Thee, all gracious Lord!
Till every soul is sanctified
And perfectly restored.
The men of heart sincere
Continue to defend ;
And do them good, and save them here,
And love them to the end.
"We wept, when we remembered Zion."
Psalm cxxxvii. 1. L. M.
1 O ZION! when I think on thee,
I wish for pinions like the dove,
And mourn to think that I should be
So distant from the place I love.
2 A captive here, and far from home,
For Zion's sacred walls I sigh:
Thither the ransomed nations come,
And see the Saviour eye to eye.
3 While here, I walk on hostile ground:
The few that I can call my friends,
Are, like myself, with fetters bound,
And weariness our steps attends.
4 But we shall yet behold the day,
When Zion's children shall return: Our sorrows then shall flee away,
And we shall never, never mourn. 5 The hope that such a day will come, Makes e'en the captive's portion sweet. Though now we wander far from home, In Zion soon we all shall meet.
"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old." Prov. viii. 22. 7's & 6's.
1 ERE God had built the mountains,
Or raised the fruitful hills;
Before He filled the fountains
That feed the running rills;
In Me, from everlasting,
The wonderful I AM
Found pleasures never wasting;
And Wisdom is My name.
5 When, like a tent to dwell in,
He spread the skies abroad,
And swathed about the swelling
Of ocean's mighty flood;
He wrought by weight and measure;
And I was with Him then :
Myself the Father's pleasure,
And Mine, the sons of men.
3 Thus Wisdom's words discover
Thy glory and Thy grace,
Thou everlasting Lover
Of our unworthy race!
Thy gracious eye surveyed us,
Ere stars were seen above.
In wisdom Thou hast made us,
And died for us in love.
4 And couldst Thou be delighted
With creatures such as we,-
Who, when we saw Thee, slighted,
And nailed Thee to a tree?
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