Sung during the Sunday worship at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London (Spurgeon’s).
Hymn 40 version 1 (based on Psalm 40) from our hymn book, Psalms & Hymns of Reformed Worship.
I WAITED for the Lord my God,
And patiently did bear;
At length to me He did incline,
My voice and cry to hear.
He took me from a fearful pit
And from the miry clay,
And on a rock He set my feet,
Establishing my way.
He put a new song in my mouth,
Our God to magnify;
Many shall see it, and shall fear,
And on the Lord rely.
O blessèd is the man whose trust
Upon the Lord relies,
Respecting not the proud, nor such
As turn aside to lies.
O Lord my God, full many are
The wonders Thou hast done;
Thy gracious thoughts to us-ward far
Above all thoughts are gone.
Thy tender mercies, Lord, from me
O do Thou not restrain;
Thy lovingkindness, and Thy Truth,
Let them me still maintain.
Author: Scottish Psalter (1650)
Tune: Ballerma
Composer: François-Hippolyte Barthélémon (1741-1808) altd.