Psalm 125

Who in the Lord confide,
And feel His sprinkled blood.

In storms and hurricanes abide
Firm as the mount of God:
Steadfast, and fix'd, and sure,
His Sion cannot move;

His faithful people stand secure
In Jesu's guardian love.

As round Jerusalem
The hilly bulwarks rise,
So God protects and covers them
From all their enemies:
On every side He stands,
And for His Israel cares;

And safe in His almighty hands
Their souls for ever bears.
For, lo! the reign of hell
And hellish men is o'er;
They can persuade, they can compel.
The just to sin no more:
To devils, men, or sin,
They need no more give place.
Nor ever touch the thing unclean
When cleansed by pardoning grace.
But let them still abide
In Thee, all-gracious Lord,
Till every soul is sanctified
And perfectly restored.
The men of heart sincere
Continue to defend,
And do them good, and save them here,
And love them to the end.
Who to their sins draw back,
And love again to stray.
The narrow path of life forsake.
And throng the spacious way,
Back to their vomit turn.

And fall from pardoning grace;
The Lord to punish them hath sworn.
And drive them from His face.

But peace, and power, and love
Shall IsracVs portion be;
They all His promises shall prove,
And all His goodness see;
Holy and pure in heart
Obtain the perfect power:

They can no more from God depart
When they can sin no more.