Proverbs 28:14: This happiness be mine

This happiness be mine.
Continually to fear
The power of righteous wrath Divine,
And fly from evil near:
And when Thou dost forgive.
Let this, O Lord, improve
My tender childlike fear to grieve.
Or sin against Thy love.

Have I not always fear'd
The anger of the Lord?
Thy voice I first from Sinai heard,
And trembled at Thy word.
In childhood's earliest hour,
I sunk through sore dismay.
At thought of Thy vindictive power.
And that tremendous day.

The thunders of Thy law,
And secret checks within,
Restrain'd, and kept my soul in awe,
And held me back from sin.