HYMN IV
Walking with GOD.
by John Newton (1725-1807)

y faith in CHRIST I walk with God,
With heav’n, my journeys’–end, in view;
Supported by his staff and rod,
My road is safe and pleasant too,

I travel through a desert wide
Where many round me blindly stray;
But He vouchsafes to be my guide,
And will not let me miss my way.

Though snares and dangers throng my path,
And earth and hell my course withstand;
I triumph over all by faith,
Guarded by his Almighty hand.

The wilderness affords no food,
But God for my support prepares;
Provides me every needful good,
And frees my soul from wants and cares.

With him sweet converse I maintain,
Great as he is I dare be free;
I tell him all my grief and pain,
And he reveals his love to me.

Some cordial from his word he brings,
Whene’er my feeble spirit faints;
At once my soul revives and sings,
And yields no more to sad complaints.

I pity all that worldlings talk
Of pleasures that will quickly end;
Be this my choice, O Lord, to walk
With thee, my Guide, my Guard, my Friend.

—from Olney Hymns. Book I: On select Passages of Scripture.

salme 140
Geneva Bible
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of David.
1 Deliuer me, O Lord, from the euill man: preserue me from the cruel man:
2 Which imagine euill things in their heart, and make warre continually.
3 They haue sharpened their tongues like a serpent: adders poyson is vnder their lips. Selah.
4 Keepe mee, O Lord, from the handes of the wicked: preserue mee from the cruell man, which purposeth to cause my steppes to slide.
5 The proude haue layde a snare for me, and spred a nette with cordes in my pathway, and set grennes for me. Selah.
6 Therefore I saide vnto the Lord, Thou art my God: heare, O Lord, the voyce of my prayers.
7 O Lord God the strength of my saluation, thou hast couered mine head in the day of battel.
8 Let not the wicked haue his desire, O Lord: performe not his wicked thought, least they be proude. Selah.
9 As for the chiefe of them, that compasse me about, let the mischiefe of their owne lippes come vpon them.
10 Let coles fal vpon them: let him cast them into the fire, and into the deepe pits, that they rise not.
11 For the backbiter shall not be established vpon the earth: euill shall hunt the cruell man to destruction.
12 I know that the Lord will auenge the afflicted, and iudge the poore.
13 Surely the righteous shall prayse thy Name, and the iust shall dwell in thy presence.

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