Your Fatherly Love, Oh LORD

1. The tender love a father has

For all his children dear,

Such love you, LORD, bestow on them

Who worship you in fear.

2. You, LORD, remember we are dust,

And all our frailty know;

Our days are like the tender grass,

And as the flower we grow.

3. The flower is withered by the wind

That smites with blighting breath;

So man is quickly swept away

Before the blast of death.

4. Unchanging is your love, Oh GOD,

From age to age the same,

Displayed to all who do your will

And reverence your Name.

5. Those who your gracious covenant keep

Oh LORD you'll ever bless;

Their children's children shall rejoice

To see your righteousness.

Adapted into a prayer from the 1912 Psalter paraphrase of Psalm 103:13-18 

Tune: Avalon CM

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Joy to the World

One of Isaac Watts Paraphrases on Psalm 98.

It's Optimistic.

It's Expecting.

Joy to the world! the Lord is come;

Let earth receive her King;

Let every heart prepare him room,

And heaven and nature sing,

And heaven and nature sing,

And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;

Let men their songs employ;

While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat the sounding joy,

Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,

Nor thorns infest the ground;

He comes to make His blessings flow

Far as the curse is found,

Far as the curse is found,

Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,

And makes the nations prove

The glories of His righteousness,

And wonders of His love,

And wonders of His love,

And wonders, wonders, of His love.