A Brighter Day Begins with His Word.

Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748 • SECTION 182

Psalm 71:1. 5-9. First Part. The aged saint's reflection and hope.

← The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament and Applied to the Christian State and Worship

1 My God, my everlasting hope, I live upon thy truth; Thine hands have held my childhood up, And strengthen'd all my youth.

2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy power, With all these limbs of mine; And from my mother's painful hour I've been entirely thine.

3 Still has my life new wonders seen Repeated every year; Behold my days that yet remain, I trust them to thy care.

4 Cast me not off when strength declines, When hoary hairs arise; And round me let thy glories shine Whene'er thy servant dies.

5 Then in the history of my age, When men review my days, They'll read thy love in every page, In every line thy praise.

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