Sweet is the work, my God, my King
Sweet is the work, my God, my King. Isaac Watts* (1674-1748).
From The Psalms of David (1719), with the title ‘A Psalm for the Lord’s Day’, in seven stanzas. It is based on the first part of Psalm 92, verses 1-11. Some parts of the text are close to the Authorised Version of the Psalm, but taken as a whole it is also a remarkably free rendering, whilst at the same time keeping close to the original in sense and spirit. Stanza 2 introduces the Lord’s Day (the day of sacred rest), and lines 3 and 4 neatly use the Psalm’s words, ‘upon the harp with a solemn sound’, as the writer equates the tuning of his heart with that of David’s harp. A Supplement (before 1831) to John Wesley’s A Collection...
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