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Hymn: The pity of the Lord (FL)

Hymnal: Christian Psalms and Hymns

Date: 1839

Compiler: Walter Scott and Silas Leonard

Publisher/Printer: A S Tilden

First Line: The pity of the Lord

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer:

Meter: SM

Tune:

Hymn Number: 452

Page Number: 224, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

THE 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,

Scattered 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 flower!

When blasting winds sweep O'er the fields,

It withers in an hour.



But thy compassions, Lord,

To endless years endure;

And children's children ever find

Thy words of promise sure.