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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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