The Good Man’s Steps Are Led Aright

The good man’s steps are led aright

His way is pleas­ing in God’s sight

Established it shall stand;

He shall not per­ish though he fall

The migh­ty Lord

who rules o’er all

Upholds him with His hand.

Though I am old who young have been

No saint have I for­sak­en seen

Nor yet his home in need;

He ev­er leads in gra­cious ways

His life true char­ity dis­plays

His sons are blest in­deed.

Depart from ev­il

do thou well

And ev­er­more se­cure­ly dwell;

Jehovah loves the right.

His faith­ful­ness His saints have proved

Forever they shall stand un­moved

But sin­ners God will smite.

The right­eous

through His fa­vor­ing hand

Shall yet in­her­it all the land

And dwell there­in for aye;

He talks of wis­dom and of right

In God’s pure law is his de­light

His steps go not as­tray.

The wick­ed

watch­ing for their prey

Desire the right­eous man to slay

But God is on his side;

He will not leave him in their hands

Nor count him guil­ty when he stands

In judg­ment to be tried.

Wait on the Lord and keep His way;

He will ex­alt thee

nor de­lay

To give the land to thee;

And when the wick­ed are cut off

The wick­ed who against thee scoff

Their judg­ment thou shalt see.

The wick­ed in great pow­er are seen

Like spread­ing tree with fo­li­age green

That grows in na­tive ground.

I looked again

they were no more;

I sought the men so proud be­fore

But they could not be found.

Mark thou the up­right day by day

Behold the per­fect in his way

His jour­ney ends in peace.

Destroyed at once shall re­bels be;

Cut off from all pos­te­ri­ty

Their ve­ry name shall cease.

Salvation is from God alone

Whom as their co­vert saints have known

When by sore trou­bles tried;

The Lord

who helped in trou­bles past

Will save them to the ve­ry last

For they in Him ab­ide.