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The Pity of the Lord
Isaac Watts·Post-Reformation
Verse 1
The pity of the Lord,
To those that fear his name,
Is such as tender parents feel;
He knows our feeble frame.
Verse 2
He knows we are but dust,
Scattered with ev’ry breath;
His anger, like a rising wind,
Can send us swift to death.
Verse 3
Our days are as the grass,
Or like the morning flow’r;
If one sharp blast sweep o’er the field,
It withers in an hour.
Verse 4
But thy compassions, Lord,
To endless years endure;
And children’s children ever find
Thy words of promise sure.
Isaac Watts, “The Pity of the Lord”
Otterbein 1890 No. 339 · S.M · Braden
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