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Lord’s Day 22, 2009

I reioyced, when they sayd to me, We wil go into the house of the Lord. (Psalme 122:1 Geneva Bible)

HYMN XVII
JEHOVAH-NISSI,
The Lord my banner. Ex. xvii. 15.
by William Cowper (1731–1800)

BY whom was David taught,
   To aim the dreadful blow,
   When he Goliath fought,
      And laid the Gittite low?
No sword nor spear the stripling took,
But chose a pebble from the brook.

   ’Twas Israel’s God and king,
      Who sent him to the fight;
   Who gave him strength to fling,
      And skill to aim aright.
Ye feeble saints your strength endures,
Because young David’s God’s is yours.

   Who ordered Gideon forth,
      To storm th’ invaders’ camp,
   With arms of little worth,
      A pitcher and a lamp?
The trumpets made his coming known,
And all the host was overthrown.

   Oh! I have seen the day,
      When with a single word,
   God helping me to say,
      My trust is in the Lord;
My soul has quell’d a thousand foes,
Fearless of all that could oppose.

   But unbelief, self–will,
      Self–righteousness and pride,
   How often do they steal
      My weapon from my side?
Yet David’s Lord, and Gideon’s friend,
Will help his servant to the end.

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

Psalme 119:169–176
(Geneva Bible)
Tav.
169 Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord, and giue me vnderstanding, according vnto thy worde.
170 Let my supplication come before thee, and deliuer me according to thy promise.
171 My lippes shall speake praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
172 My tongue shall intreate of thy word: for all thy commandements are righteous.
173 Let thine hand helpe me: for I haue chosen thy precepts.
174 I haue longed for thy saluation, O Lord, and thy Lawe is my delite.
175 Let my soule liue, and it shall praise thee, and thy iudgements shall helpe me.
176 I haue gone astraye like a lost sheepe: seeke thy seruant, for I doe not forget thy commandements.