Praise God For His Goodness and Truth

Verse 1

Praise ye the Lord! My heart shall join In work so pleasant, so divine, Now, while the flesh is my abode, And when my soul ascends to God.

Verse 2

Praise shall employ my noblest pow’rs While immortality endures; My days of praise shall ne’er be past While life and thought and being last.

Verse 3

Why should I make a man my trust? Princes must die and turn to dust. Their breath departs; their pomp and pow’r And thoughts all vanish in an hour.

Verse 4

Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel’s God! He made the sky And earth and seas with all their train, And none shall find his promise vain.

Verse 5

His truth forever stands secure. He saves th’oppressed; he feeds the poor; He sends the troubled conscience peace And grants the captive sweet release.

Verse 6

The Lord gives eyesight to the blind; The Lord supports the sinking mind. He helps the stranger in distress, The widow, and the fatherless.

Verse 7

He loves the Saints—he knows them well— But turns the wicked down to hell. Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns; Praise him in everlasting strains.