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MY Soul, repeat his Praise

PSALM CIII. 8,--18. Secd Part. Short Met.
Abounding Ccompassion of God; or, Mercy in the Midst of Judgment.

Poet: Isaac Watts, 1719
Meter: Short Meter (6,6,8,6)
Location in The Sacred Harp
Stanza Denson Cooper
1
MY Soul, repeat his Praise
Whose Mercies are so great;
Whose Anger is so slow to rise,
So ready to abate.
America 36t, Stanza 1
America 36t, Stanza 1
2
God will not always chide;
And when his Strokes are felt,
His Strokes are fewer than our Crimes,
And lighter than our Guilt.

3
High as the HeavEns are rais'd
Above the Ground we tread,
So far the Riches of his Grace
Our highest Thoughts exceed.
America 36t, Stanza 2
4
His Power subdues our Sins,
And his forgiving Love
Far as the East is from the West
Doth all our Guilt remove.
America 36t, Stanza 3
5
The Pity of the Lord
To those that fear his Name
Is such as tender Parents feel;
He knows our feeble Frame.

6
He knows we are but Dust,
Scatter'd with ev'ry Breath;
His Anger like a rising Wind
Can send us swift to Death.

7
Our Days are as the Grass,
Or like the Morning-flower;
If one sharp Blast sweep o'er the Field,
It withers in an Hour.

8
But thy Compassions, Lord,
To endless Years endure;
And Childrens Children ever find
Thy Words of Promise sure.

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