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Isaiah 1:10-19: Rulers of Sodom! hear the voice

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R17 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Rulers of Sodom! hear the voice Lyrics: Rulers of Sodom! hear the voice of heav’n’s eternal Lord; Men of Gomorrah! bend your ear submissive to his word. ’Tis thus he speaks; To what intent are your oblations vain? Why load my altars with your gifts, polluted and profane? Burnt-off’rings long may blaze to heav’n, and incense cloud the skies; The worship and the worshipper are hateful in my eyes. Your rites, your fasts, your pray’rs, I scorn, and pomp of solemn days: I know your hearts are full of guile, and Crooked are your ways. But cleanse your hands, ye guilty race, and cease from deeds of sin; Learn in your actions to be just, and pure in heart within. Mock not my name with honours vain, but keep my holy laws; Do justice to the friendless poor, and plead the widow’s cause. Then though your guilty souls are stained with sins of crimson dye, Yet, through my grace with snow itself in whiteness they shall vie. Scripture: Isaiah 1:10-19 Languages: English

Isaiah 2:2-6: Behold! the mountain of the Lord

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R18 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Behold! the mountain of the Lord Lyrics: Behold! the mountain of the Lord in latter days shall rise On mountain tops above the hills, and draw the wond’ring eyes. To this the joyful nations round, all tribes and tongues shall flow; Up to the hill of God, they’ll say, and to his house we’ll go. The beam that shines from Sion hill shall lighten ev’ry land; The King who reigns in Salem’s tow’rs shall all the world command. Among the nations he shall judge; his judgments truth shall guide; His sceptre shall protect the just, and quell the sinner’s pride. No strife shall rage, nor hostile feuds disturb those peaceful years; To ploughshares men shall beat their swords, to pruning-hooks their spears. 130 No longer hosts encount’ring hosts shall crowds of slain deplore: They hang the trumpet in the hall, and study war no more. Come then, O house of Jacob! come to worship at his Shrine; And, walking in the light of God, with holy beauties shine, Scripture: Isaiah 2:2-6 Languages: English

Isaiah 9:2-8: The race that long in darkness pined

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R19 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: The race that long in darkness pined Lyrics: The race that long in darkness pined, have seen a glorious light; The people dwell in day, who dwelt in death’s surrounding night. To hail thy rise, thou better Sun! the gath’ring nations came, Joyous, as when the reapers bear the harvest treasures home. For thou our burden hast remov’d, and quelled th’ oppressor’s sway, Quick as the slaughtered squadrons fell in Midian’s evil day. To us a Child of hope is barn; to us a Son is giv’n; Him shall the tribes of earth obey, him all the hosts of heav’n. His name shall be the Prince of Peace, for evermore adored, The Wonderful, the Counsellor, the great and mighty Lord. His pow’r increasing still shall spread, his reign no end shall know; Justice shall guard his throne above, and peace abound below. Scripture: Isaiah 9:2-8 Languages: English

Isaiah 26:1-7: How glorious Sion's courts appear

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R20 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: How glorious Sion's courts appear Lyrics: How glorious Sion’s courts appear, the city of our God! His throne he hath established here here fixed his loved abode. Its wall, defended by his grace no pow’r shall e’er o’erthrow, Salvation is its bulwark sure against th’ assailing foe. Lift up the everlasting gates, the doors wide open fling; Enter, ye nations, who obey the statutes of our King. Here shall ye taste unmingled joys, and dwell in perfect peace, Ye, who have known JEHOVAH’s name, and trusted in his grace. Trust in the Lord, for ever trust, and banish all your fears; Strength In the Lord JEHOVAH dwells eternal as his years. What though the wicked dwell on high, his arm shall bring them low; Low as the caverns of the grave their lofty heads shall bow. Along the dust shall then be spread their tow’rs, that brave the skies: On them the needy’s feet shall tread, and on their ruins rise. Scripture: Isaiah 26:1-7 Languages: English

Isaiah 33:13-18: Attend, ye tribes that dwell remote

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R21 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Attend, ye tribes that dwell remote Lyrics: Attend, ye tribes that dwell remote, ye tribes at hand, give ear; Th’ upright in heart alone have hope. the false in heart have fear. The man who walks with God in truth, and ev’ry guile disdains; Who hates to lift oppression’s rod, and scorns its shameful gains; 131 Whose soul abhors the impious bribe the tempts from truth to stray, And from th’ enticing snares of vice who turns his eyes away: His dwelling, ‘midst the strength of rocks, shall ever stand secure; His Father will provide his bread, his water shall be sure. For him the kingdom of the just afar doth glorious shine; And he the King of kings shall see in majesty divine. Scripture: Isaiah 33:13-18 Languages: English

Isaiah 40:27-31: Why pour'st thou forth thine anxious plaint

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R22 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Why pour'st thou forth thine anxious plaint Lyrics: Why pour’st thou forth thine anxious plaint, despairing of relief, As if the Lord o’erlook’d thy cause, and did not heed thy grief? Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that firm remains on high The everlasting throne of Him who formed the earth and sky? Art thou afraid his pow’r shall fail when comes thy evil day? And can an all-creating arm grow weary or decay? Supreme in wisdom as in pow’r the Rock of ages stands; Though him thou canst not see, nor trace the working of his hands. He gives the conquest to the weak, supports the fainting heart; And courage in the evil hour his heav’nly aids impart. Mere human pow’r shall fast decay, and youthful vigour cease; But they who wait upon the Lord, in strength shall still increase. They with unwearied feet shall tread the path of life divine; With growing ardent onward move, with growing brightness shine. On eagles’ wings they mount, they soar, their wings are faith and love, Till, past the cloudy regions here, they rise to heav’n above. Scripture: Isaiah 40:27-31 Languages: English

Isaiah 42:1-13: Behold my Servant! see him rise

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R23 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Behold my Servant! see him rise Lyrics: Behold my Servant! see him rise exalted in my might! Him have I chosen, and in him I place supreme delight. On him, in rich effusion poured, my Spirit shall descend; My truths and judgments he shall show to earth’s remotest end. Gentle and still shall be his voice, no threats from him proceed; The smoking flax he shall not quench, nor break the bruised reed. The feeble spark to flames he’ll raise; the weak will not despise; Judgment he shall bring forth to truth, and make the fallen rise. The progress of his zeal and pow’r shall never know decline, Till foreign lands and distant isles receive the law divine. He who erected heav’ns bright arch, and bade the planets roll, Who peopled all the climes of earth, and formed the human soul, Thus saith the Lord, Thee have I raised, my Prophet thee install; In right I’ve raised thee, and in strength I’ll succour whom I call. 132 I will establish with the lands a covenant in thee, To give the Gentile nations light, and set the pris’ners free: Asunder burst the gates of brass; the iron fetters fall; And gladsome light and liberty are straight restored to all. I am the Lord, and by the name of great JEHOVAH known; No idol shall usurp my praise, nor mount into my throne. Lo! former scenes, predicted once conspicuous rise to view; And future scenes, predicted now, shall be accomplished too. Sing to the Lord in joyful strains! let earth his praise resound, Ye who upon the ocean dwell, and fill the isles around! O city of the Lord! begin the universal song; And let the scattered villages the cheerful notes prolong. Let Kedar’s wilderness afar lift up its lonely voice; And let the tenants of the rock with accents rude rejoice; Till ‘midst the streams of distant lands the islands sound his praise; And all combined, with one accord, JEHOVAH’s glories raise. Scripture: Isaiah 42:1-13 Languages: English

Isaiah 49:13-17: Ye heav'ns send forth your song of praise!

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R24 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Ye heav'ns send forth your song of praise! Lyrics: Ye heav’ns send forth your song of praise! earth, raise your voice below! Let hills and mountains join the hymn, and joy through nature flow. Behold how gracious is our God! hear the consoling strains, In which he cheers our drooping hearts, and mitigates our pains. Cease ye, when days of darkness come, in sad dismay to mourn, As if the Lord could leave his saints forsaken or forlorn. Can the fond mother e’er forget the infant whom she bore? And can its plaintive cries be heard, nor move compassion more? She may forget: nature may fail a parent’s heart to move; But Sion on my heart shall dwell in everlasting love. Full in my sight, upon my hands I have engraved her name: My hands shall build her ruined walls, and raise her broken frame. Scripture: Isaiah 49:13-17 Languages: English

Isaiah 53: How few receive with cordial faith

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R25 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: How few receive with cordial faith Lyrics: How few receive with cordial faith the tidings which we bring? How few have seen the arm revealed of heav’n’s eternal King? The Saviour comes! no outward pomp bespeaks his presence nigh; No earthly beauty shines in him to draw the carnal eye. Fair as a beauteous tender flow’r amidst the desert grows, So slighted by a rebel race the heav’nly Saviour rose. Rejected and despised of men, behold a man of woe! Grief was his close companion still through all his life below. 133 Yet all the griefs he felt were ours, ours were the woes he bore: Pangs, not his own, his spotless soul with bitter anguish tore. We held him as condemned by Heav’n, an outcast from his God, While for our sins he groaned, he bled, beneath his Father’s rod. His sacred blood hath washed our souls from sin’s polluted stain; His stripes es have healed us, and his death revived our souls again. We all, like sheep, had gone astray in ruin’s fatal road: On him were our transgressions laid; he bore the mighty load. Wronged and oppressed how meekly he in patient silence stood! Mute, as the peaceful harmless lamb, when brought to shed its blood. Who can his generation tell? from prison see him led! With impious show of law condemned, and numbered with the dead. ’Midst sinners low in dust he lay; the rich a grave supplied: Unspotted was his blameless life; unstained by sin he died. Yet God shall raise his head on high, though thus he brought him low; His sacred off’ring, when complete, shall terminate his woe. For, saith the Lord, my pleasure then shall prosper in his hand; His shall a num’rous offspring be, and still his honours stand. His soul, rejoicing, shall behold the purchase of his pain; And all the guilty whom he saved shall bless Messiah’s reign. He with the great shall share the spoil, and baffle all his foes; Though ranked with sinners, here he fell, a conqueror he rose. He died to bear the guilt of men, that sin might be forgiv’n: He lives to bless them and defend, and plead their cause in heav’n. Scripture: Isaiah 53 Languages: English

Isaiah 55: Ho! ye that thirst, approach the spring

Hymnal: Scottish Psalter and Paraphrases #R26 (1800) Meter: 8.6.8.6 First Line: Ho! ye that thirst, approach the spring Lyrics: Ho! ye that thirst, approach the spring where living waters flow: Free to that sacred fountain all without a price may go. How long to streams of false delight will ye in crowds repair? How long your strength and substance waste on trifles, light as air? My stores afford those rich supplies that health and pleasure give: Incline your ear, and come to me; the soul that hears shall live. With you a cov’nant I will make, that ever shall endure; The hope which gladdened David’s heart my mercy hath made sure. Behold he comes! your leader comes, with might and honour crowned; A witness who shall spread my name to earth’s remotest bound. 134 See! nations hasten to his call from ev’ry distant shore; Isles, yet unknown, shall bow to him, and Isr’el’s God adore. Seek ye the Lord while yet his ear is open to your call; While offered mercy still is near, before his footstool fall. Let sinners quit their evil ways, their evil thoughts forego: And God, when they to him return, returning grace will show. He pardons with o’erflowing love: for, hear the voice divine! My nature is not like to yours, nor like your ways are mine: But far as heav’n’s resplendent orbs beyond earth’s spot extend, As far my thoughts, as far my ways, your ways and thoughts transcend. And as the rains from heav’n distil, nor thither mount again, But swell the earth with fruitful juice, and all its tribes sustain: So not a word that flows from me shall ineffectual fall; But universal nature prove obedient to my call. With joy and peace shall then be led the glad converted lands; The lofty mountains then shall sing, the forests clap their hands. Where briers grew ‘midst barren wilds, shall firs and myrtles spring; And nature, through its utmost bounds, eternal praises sing. Scripture: Isaiah 55 Languages: English