Psalm 37, Part 3

Evil do thou eschew,
Do good with all thy power;
And perfect holiness pursue,
And dwell for evermore.
Lover of holiness,
The Lord preserves His own,
When all the sinner's offspring cease.
For ever lost and gone.

Saints shall possess the land.
And dwell for ever there;

Confess the faith by which they stand.
Their righteousness declare.
The law is writ within
The pure and perfect heart;

The saint indeed shall never sin.
Or from his God depart.

1 6 The wicked eyes the good.
And watches to devour;
God will not leave His saint, pursued
By persecuting power.
Though men arrest, arraign,
And judge him in their day,
The Lord shall soon his cause maintain,
His innocence display.
1 7 Thou in the Saviour hope,
And in His statutes Hve,
So shall He keep, and lift thee up.
The promise to receive.
When the ungodly fall,
Thou shalt their ruin see,
And glorify the Judge of all.
Who now appears for thee.
1 8 I have the wicked seen
In all his pomp and power.
Fair as the laurel-tree, and green,
And flourishing his hour.
I pass'd, and look'd again, —
The mighty man was not;
I sought his place, and sought in vain.
His place was clean forgot!

Observe the saint of God,
Who walks in uprightness,
The man in perfect love renew'd, —
His end is glorious peace.
While wicked souls, at last.

Together all descend
Into a flaming Tophet cast;
Damnation is their end!

But God rewards His own
With heavenly happiness,
And saves them till their course is run,
And keeps in their distress.
From all their foes the just
A' present Saviour have,
And (for in Him they put their trust)
He shall for ever save.
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