2497. How Fast Their Guilt and Sorrows Rise

1. 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.

2. My God provides a richer cup,
And nobler food to live upon:
He for my life has offered up
Jesus, His best-belovèd Son.

3. His love is my perpetual feast;
By day His counsels guide me right;
And be His name for ever blessed,
Who gives me sweet advice by night.

4. I set Him still before mine eyes;
At my right hand He stands prepared
To keep my soul from all surprise
And be my everlasting guard.

Text Information
First Line: How fast their guilt and sorrows rise
Title: How Fast Their Guilt and Sorrows Rise
Author: Isaac Watts (1719)
Meter: LM
Language: English
Source: The Psalms of David, 1719
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: FESTUS
Composer: Anonymous
Meter: LM
Incipit: 51765 62433 25345
Key: D Major
Source: From a German chorale in the Moravian Psalter
Copyright: Public Domain



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