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Your praises, Lord, with all my heart
- Psalms 9
- 9
Your praises, Lord, with all my heart,
your glory I will sing,
and tell of all your wondrous works
with joy, most mighty King.
You make your enemies turn back,
they stumble and they die,
but you uphold my right and cause,
on you I can rely.
2. The nations suffer your rebuke,
the wicked are destroyed,
their cities have been overthrown,
their memories a void;
yet you, O Lord, are judge indeed,
your justice ever sure,
a rock of strength in time of need;
your kingdom shall endure.
3. The weak find refuge in the Lord,
protection he will give,
and those who know his sacred name
will trust in him and live.
Then sing the praises of the Lord,
his noble acts proclaim,
for he remembers those in want
who call upon his name.
4. Have mercy on me now, O Lord,
let me rejoice to know
you save me from the gates of death
and my pursuing foe;
yet nations plunging headlong down
into their self-made hell
shall be cut off, and never reach
the light in which you dwell.
5. The lowly patience of the poor
will have its own reward,
their enemies be driven back
by you, the sovereign Lord.
Arise, O Lord, abase man’s pride,
make nations bow in fear;
teach them to know their human state
when you, their judge, appear.
© Praise
Veronica Medd
The Father - His Providence
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The story behind the hymn
In the Septuagint (the OT in Gk) Psalm 9 and 10 are joined as a single item, and traces of an acrostic device in the Hebrew also suggest a link. As Spurgeon points out, 9 also echoes 8; ‘as if “The Name�?, so highly praised in the former Psalm, were still ringing in the ear of the sweet singer of Israel’. It also contains hints of the greater but shorter Psalm 96 and Psalm 98 to come. Veronica Medd’s version of this one, written at Penrith in Cumbria and completed in early 1985, appeared in Carey Praise (Carey Baptist Ch, Reading, 1989) and is first published here in a general book. An adaptation of Doddridge’s ‘evangelical’ version, Sing to the Lord, who loud proclaims is chosen in PHRW while CH2004 makes a different, and differently revised, selection of the Doddridge text. Henry Walford Davies’ tune PENTATONE became known to Scottish and Irish Presbyterians through the Church Hymnary, Revised Edition (1927) but is found in few if any other books. It is set there to My heart is resting, O my God; a hymn in a rather different mood from at least the central stzs of this Psalm version.
A look at the author
Medd, Veronica
A lay worker in the Church of England who is also a writer of Christian verse, some of which has been published in Symphony magazine. She has written I was a Stranger: Lesson-notes on refugees and Christian Aid. Formerly at Carlisle; she is now living in Jesmond, Newcastle upon Tyne. No.9.