My Heart Rejoices in Thy Name
from Psalm 31
Isaac Watts
(1674-1748)
MY HEART REJOICES (C.M.)
Mitch Cervinka*
2000
Score
My heart re-joi-ces in Thy Name,
My God, my help, my trust;
Thou hast pre-served my face from shame,
Mine hon-our from the dust.
My life is spent with grief, I cried,
My years con-sumed in groans,
My strength de-cays, mine eyes are dried,
And sor-row wastes my bones.
A-mong mine en-e-mies my name
Was a mere pro-verb grown,
While to my neigh-bours I be-came
For-got-ten and un-known.
Slan-der and fear, on ev-ery side,
Seized and be-set me round;
I to the throne of grace ap-plied,
And spee-dy res-cue found.
How great de-liv-'rance Thou hast wrought
Be-fore the sons of men!
The ly-ing lips to si-lence brought,
And made their boast-ings vain!
Thy chil-dren, from the strife of tongues,
Shall Thy pa-vil-ion hide,
Guard them from in-fa-my and wrongs,
And crush the sons of pride.
With-in Thy se-cret pre-sence, Lord,
Let me for-ev-er dwell;
No fen-ced ci-ty, walled and barred,
Se-cures a saint so well.
*Music: Composed 2000 by Mitch Cervinka.
Donated to the Public Domain for the unrestricted use of Christ's church.