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Arise My Soul, My Joyful Powers

Isaac Watts· Post-Reformation

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Verse 1

Arise my soul, my joyful powers,
And triumph in my God,
Awake, my voice, and loud proclaim
His glorious grace abroad.

Verse 2

He rais’d me from the deeps of sin,
The gates of gaping hell,
And fix’d my standing more secure
Than ’twas before I fell.

Verse 3

The arms of everlasting love
Beneath my soul he plac’d,
And on the rock of ages set
My slippery footsteps fast.

Verse 4

The city of my bless’d abode
Is wall’d around with grace
Salvation for a bulwark stands
To shield the sacred place.

Verse 5

Satan may vent his sharpest spite,
And all his legions roar,
Almighty mercy guards my life,
And bounds his raging power.

Verse 6

Arise, my soul, awake, my voice,
And tunes of pleasure sing,
Loud hallelujahs shall address
My Saviour and my King.

Isaac Watts, “Arise My Soul, My Joyful Powers”