Hymnal: The Christian Hymnal Revised
Date: 1882
Compiler: A I Hobbs et al
Publisher/Printer: Christian Publishing Co
First Line: The pity of the Lord
Topic: God/Compassion of
Writer: Isaac Watts
Composer: Charles Lockhart
Meter: SM
Tune: Carlisle
Hymn Number: 441
Page Number: 151, click to see hymnal pages
LyicsTHE pity of the Lord
To those that fear His name,
Is such as tender parents feel;
He knows our feeble frame.
He knows we are but dust,
Scatter'd with every breath;
His anger, like a rising wind,
Can send us swift to death.
Our days are as the grass,
Or like the morning flow'r;
If one sharp blast sweep o'er the field,
It withers in an hour.
But Thy compassions, Lord,
To endless years endure;
And children's children ever find
Thy words of promise sure.