4 How holy is His name!
How terrible His praise!

Justice, and truth, and judgment, join
In all His works of grace.

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XALT the Lord our God,

EXALT

And worship at His feet;

His nature is all holiness,
And mercy is His seat.

When Israel was His church,
When Aaron was His priest,

When Moses cried, when Samuel pray'd,
He gave His people rest.

Oft He forgave their sins,

Nor would destroy their race;

And oft He made His vengeance known, When they abus'd His grace.

Exalt the Lord our God,

Whose grace is still the same;

Still He's a God of holiness,

And jealous for His name.

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1 OD the Lord is King-Before Him,
UT Earth, with all thy nations wait
Where the cherubim adore Him
Sitteth He in royal state:

He is holy:

Blessed only Potentate!

2 God the Lord is King of glory,
Zion, tell the world His fame:
Ancient Israel, the story
Of His faithfulness proclaim.
He is holy,

Holy is His awful name.

3 In old times when dangers darken'd,
When, invok'd by priest and seer,
To His people's cry He hearken'd-
Answer'd them in all their fear:
He is holy:

As they call'd, they found Him near.

4 Laws divine to them were spoken
From the pillar of the cloud;
Sacred precepts, quickly broken;
Fiercely then His vengeance flow'd.
He is holy:

To the dust their hearts were bow'd.

5 But their Father-God forgave them
When they sought His face once more,
Ever ready was to save them,
Tenderly did He restore :
He is holy :

We, too, will His grace implore.

6 God in Christ is all forgiving,
Waits His mercy to fulfil :-
Come, exalt Him, all the living;
Come, ascend His Zion still!
He is holy:

Worship at His holy hill.

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1 ING to the Lord with joyful voice,
Let every land His name adore:
The British isles shall send the noise
Across the ocean to the shore.

2 Nations, attend before His throne,
With solemn fear, with sacred joy;
Know that the Lord is God alone;
He can create, and He destroy.

3 His sovereign power, without our aid,
Made us of clay, and form'd us men;
And when like wandering sheep we stray'd,
He brought us to His fold again.

4 We are His people, we His care,
Our souls and all our mortal frame:
What lasting honours shall we rear
Almighty Maker, to Thy name?

5 We'll crowd Thy gates with thankful songs, High as the heaven our voices raise ;

And earth, with her ten thousand tongues,
Shall fill Thy courts with sounding praise.

6 Wide as the world is Thy command,
Vast as eternity Thy love;

Firm as a rock Thy truth must stand,
When rolling years shall cease to move.

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E nations round the earth, rejoice
Before the Lord, your sovereign King;
Serve Him with cheerful heart and voice,
With all your tongues His glory sing.

2 The Lord is God: 'tis He alone
Doth life, and breath, and being give;
We are His work, and not our own,
The sheep that on His pastures live.
3 Enter His gates with songs of joy,
With praises to His courts repair;
And make it your divine employ
To pay your thanks and honours there.
4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind,
Great is His grace, His mercy sure;
And the whole race of man shall find
His truth from age to age endure.

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W To God their cheerful voices raise;

Glad homage pay with pious mirth,
And sing before Him songs of praise:

2 Convinc'd that He is God alone,

From whom both we and all proceed,
We, whom He chooses for His own,
The flock that He vouchsafes to feed.

3 O enter, then, His temple gate,

Thence to His courts devoutly press,
And still your grateful hymns repeat,
And still His name with praises bless.

4 For He's the Lord, supremely good;
His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth, which always firmly stood,
To endless ages shall endure.

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LL people that on earth do dwell,

A voice;

Him serve with fear, His praise forth tell
Come ye before Him and rejoice.

2 The Lord, ye know, is God indeed;
Without our aid He did us make;
We are His flock, He doth us feed;
And for His sheep He doth us take.

3 O enter, then, His gates with praise,
Approach with joy His courts unto;
Praise, laud, and bless His name always,
For it is seemly so to do.

4 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure;

His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

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PSALM CII.

C. M.

WATTS.

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HEAR me, o, od; nor hide Thy face,

But answer, lest I die;

Hast Thou not built a throne of grace,
To hear when sinners cry?

2 My looks like wither'd leaves appear;
And life's declining light
Grows faint as evening shadows are
That vanish into night.

3 But Thou for ever art the same,
O my eternal God;

Ages to come shall know Thy name,
And spread Thy works abroad.

4 Thou wilt arise and shew Thy face,
Nor will my Lord delay

Beyond th' appointed hour of grace,
That long-expected day.

5 He hears His saints, He knows their cry, And by mysterious ways

Redeems the prisoners doom'd to die,
And fills their tongues with praise.

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ET Zion and her sons rejoice:
Behold the promis'd hour;

Her God hath heard her mourning voice,
And comes to exalt His power.