Common Tune

Text · Psalm 37

Well-Doing and Well-Being

A little that the righteous hold

from The Psalter, 1912 · 8.8.6.8.8.6

1.A little that the righteous hold
Is better far than wealth untold
Of many wicked men;
Destroyed shall be their arm of pride,
But they who in the lord confide
Shall be upholden then.

2.He knows the days the perfect live,
To them a heritage will give
Which ever shall abide;
In evil times no shame they know,
And in the days of famine's woe
They shall be satisfied.

3.Although the wicked prospered seem,
At last they vanish like a dream
And perish in a day;
Jehovah's foes shall soon appear
Like fields once fair, now brown and sear;
Like smoke they fade away.

4.They borrow oft and pay not back,
But righteous men do nothing lack,
And give with gracious hand;
Those cursed by Him shall be destroyed,
But such as have His grace enjoyed,
They shall possess the land

Sung to

Same meter but needs editorial underlay: KOMMT HER ZU MIR, SPRICHT GOTTES SOHN.

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