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Psalm 78 Version 2 | |||
GIVE ear to the Lord, Attend to His Word, In parables clear The Truth shall be heard; For God has commanded That all He has done To all generations Must surely be known. |
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2 | The story be told, To warn and restrain, Of hearts that were hard, Rebellious and vain; But God, in compassion, Reluctant to slay, Forgave them, and oft turned His anger away. |
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3 | They limited God, The Most Holy One, And hindered the work, His grace had begun; The hand that was mighty To save they forgot; Their day of redemption Remembering not. |
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4 | Shall we thus rebel? And tempt our dear Lord? Unfaithfully turn To ‘idols’ abhorred? That God in His anger Should bless us no more, And leave us defenceless And chasten us sore. |
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5 | O keep us, our God, And seal every heart, That we may be true And never depart; May Jesus our Shepherd Be loved and adored, Obeyed with devotion As our only Lord. |
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Based on The Psalter, 1912 |