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LORD, in the Morning thou shalt hear

PSALM V.
For the Lord's-day Morning.

Poet: Isaac Watts, 1719
Meter: Common Meter (8,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
LORD, in the Morning thou shalt hear
My Voice ascending high;
To thee will I direct my Pray'r,
To thee lift up mine Eye.
Holcombe 77b, Stanza 1
2
Up to the Hills where Christ is gone
To plead for all his Saints,
Presenting at his Father's Throne
Our Songs and our Complaints.

3
Thou art a God before whose Sight
The Wicked shall not stand,
Sinners shall ne'er be thy Delight,
Nor dwell at thy Right-hand.

4
But to thy House will I resort
To taste thy Mercies there;
I will frequent thine holy Court,
And worship in thy Fear.

5
O may thy Spirit guide my Feet
In Ways of Righteousness!
Make ev'ry Path of Duty straight,
And plain before my Face.
Holcombe 77b, Stanza 2


PAUSE.
6
My watchful Enemies combine
To tempt my Feet astray;
They flatter with a base Design,
To make my Soul their Prey.

7
Lord, crush the Serpent in the Dust,
And all his Plots destroy;
While those that in thy Mercy trust,
For ever shout for Joy.

8
The Men that love and fear thy Name
Shall see their hopes Fulfill'd;
The mighty God will compass them
With Favour as a Shield.

This Psalm begins with the mention of Morning Prayer, and
proceeds to the Worship of God in his Temple, which inclin'd me to
entitle it, for a Lord's-Day Morning.

St. 2. and 5. Where any just Occasion is given to make mention
of Christ and the holy Spirit, I refuse it not; and I am persua-
ded David would not have refused it, had he lived under the Gos-
pel, nor St. Paul, had he written a Psalm Book.
Watts, Isaac. The Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, and applied to the Christian State and Worship. London: Printed for J. Clark, R. Ford, and R. Cruttenden, 1719