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Text:How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?
Tune:DUANE STREET
Composer:George Coles

119B. How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?

1 How shall the young direct their way?
What light shall be their perfect guide?
Your word, O Lord, will safely lead
if in its wisdom they confide.
Sincerely I have sought you, LORD,
O let me not from you depart;
to know your will and keep from sin
your word I cherish in my heart.

2 O blessed LORD, teach me your law,
your righteous judgments I declare;
your testimonies make me glad,
for they are wealth beyond compare.
Upon your precepts and your ways
my heart will meditate with awe;
your word shall be my chief delight,
and I will not forget your law.

Text Information
First Line: How shall the young direct their way?
Title: How Shall the Young Direct Their Way?
Meter: L.M.D.
Language: English
Publication Date: 2018
Scripture:
Topic: Christian Education; Pilgrimage and Guidance; Youth
Source: The Psalter, 1912; mod.
Tune Information
Name: DUANE STREET
Composer: George Coles (1835)
Meter: L.M.D.
Key: A♭ Major



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