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Psalm 16 (Version 2, Part 2)

L.M. (8.8.8.8) Psalm 16 Isaac Watts

Psalm Text

How fast their guilt and sorrows rise

Who haste to seek some idol god!

I will not taste their sacrifice,

Their offerings of forbidden blood.

My God provides a richer cup,

And nobler food to live upon;

He for my life has offer'd up

Jesus, his best beloved Son.

His love is my perpetual feast;

By day his counsels guide me right;

And be his name for ever blest,

Who gives me sweet advice by night.

I set him still before mine eyes;

At my right hand he stands prepar'd

To keep my soul from all surprise,

And be my everlasting guard.

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1719 Isaac Watts

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This metrical psalm text is in the public domain.