O God, My Heart Is Fully Bent

O God

my heart is ful­ly bent

To mag­ni­fy Thy name;

My tongue with cheer­ful songs of praise

Shall ce­le­brate Thy fame.

Awake

my lute; nor thou

my harp

Thy warb­ling notes de­lay;

Whilst I with ear­ly hymns of joy

Prevent the dawn­ing day.

To all the list­en­ing tribes

O Lord

Thy won­drous works I’ll tell

And to those na­tions sing Thy praise

That round about us dwell:

Because Thy mer­cy’s bound­less height

The high­est heav’n trans­cends;

And far be­yond th’as­pir­ing clouds

Thy faith­ful truth ex­tends.

Be Thou

O God

ex­alt­ed high

Above the star­ry frame;

And let the world

with one con­sent

Confess Thy glo­ri­ous name.

That all Thy chos­en peo­ple Thee

Their Sav­ior may de­clare;

Let Thy right hand pro­tect me still

And an­swer Thou my pray­er.

Since God Him­self has said the word

Whose pro­mise can­not fail

With joy I Si­chem will di­vide

And mea­sure Suc­coth’s vale.

Gilead is mine

Ma­nas­seh

too

And Eph­ra­im owns my cause:

Their strength my re­gal pow­er sup­ports

And Ju­dah gives my laws.

Moab I’ll make my ser­vile drudge

On van­quished Ed­om tread;

And thro’ the proud Phil­is­tine lands

My con­quer­ing ban­ners spread.

By whose sup­port and aid shall I

Their well fenced ci­ty gain?

Who will my troops se­cure­ly lead

Thro’ Ed­om’s guard­ed plain?

Lord

wilt not Thou as­sist our arms

Which late Thou didst for­sake?

And wilt not Thou

of these our hosts

Once more the guid­ance take?

O to Thy serv­ant in dis­tress

Thy speedy suc­cor send;

For vain it is on hu­man aid

For safe­ty to de­pend.

Then val­iant acts shall we per­form

If Thou Thy pow­er dis­close;

For God it is

and God alone

That treads down all our foes.