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Testing Times

Tune: Engelberg

(\'All praise to thee, for thou, O King divine\')

Psalm 11

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In the LORD put I my trust, how say you

To my soul, Flee as a bird to mount, do?

For the wicked bend their bows for arrows

And evil their mind knows

 

They ready to shoot at upright in heart

To trouble them, persecute from the start

If the foundations be destroyed, what can

The righteous do, each man?

 

The LORD is in His holy temple, see

The LORD\'s throne is in heaven, so it be

His eyes behold, His eyelids test men here

They all to Him appear

 

The LORD tests the righteous but the wicked

And the violent the LORD, He hates instead

Upon them He shall rain snares, fire, brimstone

Judgements from Him are known

 

It shall be an horrible tempest sure

Unto them, this their portion, turmoils sore

The righteous LORD He loves true righteousness

The upright He shall bless