Why Do the Wealthy Wicked Boast?
from Psalm 37
Isaac Watts
(1674-1748)
ORDERED BY THY WILL (C.M.)
Mitch Cervinka*
2000
Score
Why do the weal-thy wick-ed boast,
And grow pro-fane-ly bold?
The mean-est por-tion of the just
Ex-cels the sin-ner's gold.
The wick-ed bor-rows of his friends,
But ne'er de-signs to pay;
The saint is mer-ci-ful and lends,
Nor turns the poor a-way.
His lips ab-hor to talk pro-fane,
To slan-der or de-fraud;
His read-y tongue de-clares to men
What he has learned of God.
The law and Gos-pel of the Lord
Deep in his heart a-bide;
Led by the Spi-rit and the Word,
His feet shall nev-er slide.
When sin-ners fall, the right-eous stand,
Pre-served from ev-ery snare;
They shall pos-sess the pro-mised land,
And dwell for-ev-er there.
My God, the steps of up-right men
Are or-dered by Thy will;
Tho' they should fall they rise a-gain,
Thy hand sup-ports them still.
Wait on the Lord, ye sons of men,
Nor fear when ty-rants frown;
Ye shall con-fess their pride was vain,
When jus-tice casts them down.
*Music: Composed 2000 by Mitch Cervinka.
Donated to the Public Domain for the unrestricted use of Christ's church.